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ASHURST  of  ARIZONA 


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CHRISTIAN   A.    TAYLOR 

Douglas,   Ariz. 


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ASHURST  of  ARIZONA 


{From  Prescott  Courier,  September, 
1911.) 

THE  PEOPLE'S  NOMINEE  FOR  U.  S. 
SENATOR 

A  FRIEND  of  Mr.  Ashurst,  who  has 
^^  known  him  from  early  childhood, 
has  handed  the  Editor  the  following  in- 
teresting letter : 

"Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  a  type  of  young 
men  found  in  great  abundance  through- 
out the  West,  who  are  making  them- 
selves useful  citizens. 

"Mr.  Ashurst  was  born  in  the  State  of 
Nevada  in  1874,  and  the  next  year  he 
was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Arizona, 
where  he  has  continuously  resided.  His 
father,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  pioneer 
and  prospector,  was  accidentally  killed 
by  an  explosion  in  a  mine  in  the  Grand 
Canyon  many  years  ago.  His  mother,  a 
native  of  Missouri,  heroically  endured 
the  hardships  incident  to  life  on  the 
Arizona  frontier. 

"He  left  the  Flagstaff  public  school 
at  the  age  of  15  to  become  a  cowboy, 
and  during  the  next  four  years  'rode 
the  range'  in  Coconino,  Navajo,  and 
Apache  counties.  At  the  age  of  19  he 
was  appointed  a  deputy  by  Sheriff 
'Sandy'  Donahue,  of  Coconino  County, 
which  position  he  creditably  filled.  After 
he  left  the  sheriff's  office,  he  went  to 
work  as  a  hod-carrier,  and  later  as  a 
lumber-jack  in  the  mills  of  the  Arizona 
Lumber  Company  of  Flagstaff.  In  1895 
he  commenced  the  study  of  law,  which 
he  pursued  with  close  application.  In 
1896  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature 
from  Coconino  County,  was  re-elected 
in  1898,  and  in  1899  was  selected  as 
Speaker  of  the  House,  being  the  young- 
est man  ever  chosen  to  fill  such  a  posi- 
tion. 

"In  1899  he  was  licensed  by  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Arizona  to  practice  law, 
the  duties  of  which  profession  he  has 
observed  with  notable  success  and  with 


untiring  devotion  to  his  clients.  In  1902' 
he  was  elected  to  the  territorial  council. 
In  1903,  desiring  to  secure  every  possible 
advantage  for  his  professional  avoca- 
tion, he  entered  the  law  department  of 
the  University  of  Michigan  and,  as  a 
special  student,  took  a  course  of  lec- 
tures in  law  and  political  economy. 

"In  March,  1904,  he  was  married  to 
Elizabeth  L.  Renoe,  of  Flagstaff,  and  a 
happy  marriage,  indeed,  was  this;  for 
even  in  bitter  partisan  strife  his  political 
opponents  always  suspend  their  criti- 
cisms long  enough  to  take  opportunity 
to  praise  and  approve  the  virtue  and 
rectitude  of  his  domestic  life. 

"He  was  elected  district  attorney  of 
Coconino  County  in  1904  and  was  re- 
elected in  1906.  During  his  two  terms 
of  office  as  district  attorney  his  efforts 
were  those  of  a  zealous  guardian  of  the 
public  interests.  While  in  office,  dis- 
honesty and  extravagance  in  public  busi- 
ness crumbled  before  his  determined 
honesty  and  aggressive  courage.  In  the 
administration  of  the  duties  of  his  office 
as  a  public  prosecutor,  justice  went  hand 
in  hand  with  charity  toward  the  poor 
and  unfortunate. 

"In  1908  he  was  licensed  to  practice 
before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  In  January,  1909,  he  moved  his 
law  office  to  Prescott  and  immediately 
was  recognized  as  one  of  the  leaders  of 
the  able  Prescott  bar. 

"Despite  his  arduous  labors,  he  never 
failed  to  keeo  in  touch  with  the  great 
public  questions  that  are  discussed 
throughout  the  nation  and  to  hear  his 
addresses  on  the  many  topics  that  enter 
into  the  very  life  of  the  nation  gives 
assurance  that  he  has  closely  studied 
these  questions  and  kept  abreast  with 
the  times. 

"He  advocates  the  election  of  Sen- 
ators by  a  direct  vote  of  the  people; 
favors  nominating  all  public  officers  by 
direct  primary ;  believes  in  the  initiative 


Y  JiMiiH.i    1  iUnunAi 


and  referendum ;  favors  the  recall ;  ad- 
vocates the  parcels  post. 

"Ashurst's  example  is  a  lesson  prov- 
ing that  success  comes  only  as  a  result 
of  ceaseless  endeavor ;  that  victory 
comes  only  from  unremitting  toil,  and 
that  genius  is  nothing  but  the  child  of 
labor. 

"Ashurst  is  a  brave  man.  He  dis- 
played physical  bravery  in  his  youthful 
days  of  adventure,  and  he  is  brave  men- 
tally and  morally  as  well  as  physically. 

"Everything  he  has  in  life,  every 
honor  he  has  achieved,  he  has  won  by 
solid  work  of  hand  and  brain. 

"He  possesses  the  physical  attributes 
of  the  orator — engaging  personality, 
strength,  good  humor,  and  flowing  dic- 
tion. He  is  plucky  and  earnest  in  his 
advocacy  of  vital  principles  and  essen- 
tials, and  he  gives  to  every  work  he 
undertakes  a  vigor  and  variety  of  intel- 
lect unsurpassed  in  the  territory. 

"His  command  of  forceful  and  agree- 
able language,  his  sure  scholarship,  his 
vehement  eloquence,  his  audacious  cour- 
age, his  moral  elevation,  and  his  un- 
swerving devotion  to  high  political  prin- 
ciples easily  mark  him  as  a  man  who 
could  the  'applause  of  listening  senates 
command.' 

"His  immense  labors  for  progress  and 
justice  have  made  him  an  influential  and 
useful  man;  while  his  animal  spirits, 
warm  heart,  generosity,  and  the  constant 
propriety  of  his  demeanor  have  made 
him  one  of  the  most  beloved  characters 
in  Arizona's  history." 


THE  SENATORSHIPS 

The  sensationally  triumphant  individ- 
ual campaign  of  Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  a 
remarkable  exhibition  of  personal  prow- 
ess in  politics  comparable  to  the  first 
nomination  of  Bryan.  It  is  also  a  strong 
demonstration  of  the  rule  of  the  people 
through  the  direct  primary.  Mr.  Ashurst 
had  no  political  machine,  no  powerful 
influence,  no  money,  and  little  friendly 
organization  behind  him.    His  success  is. 


purely  personal  and  stamps  him  as  a 
man  who  will  undoubtedly  make  himself 
felt  in  the  Senate,  which  is  no  small 
accomplishment.  His  superlative  charm 
as  an  orator,  his  earnest  and  sincere 
demeanor,  his  record  as  a  progressive 
legislator,  and  particularly  as  a  battler 
for  laws  protecting  labor,  carried  him  to 
the  seat  of  victory. 

The  vote  that  Ashurst  got  in  Yuma 
precinct  through  a  20-minute  speech  was 
one  of  the  astonishing  features  of  the 
campaign.  Those  who  heard  that  speech. 
Democrats  and  Republicans  alike,  would 
go  miles  to  hear  another  from  the  same 
lips.  When  Ashurst  comes  to  Yuma 
again  he  will  draw  an  audience  that  will 
embrace  most  of  the  local  population — 
From  Yuma  Sun,  October  28,  1911. 


ASHURST   OF  ARIZONA 

BY  ALFRED  HENRY  LEWIS 

A  straight-from-the-shoulder  sketch  of  a 
straighl-from-the-shoulder  young  man.  As 
soon  as  Ashurst  announced  his  candidacy 
for  the  Senate,  the  "interests"  tried  to 
reach  him,  hut  they  found  he  could  not  be 
bribed,  bullied,  nor  bamboozled.  He  there- 
upon announced  that  his  campaign  would 
be  no  pink-tea  affair,  and  he  lived  up  to  his 
platform. 

"Where   others   bought,   he  fought   his 
way  in." 

To  read  about  Arizona  is  worth  any 
man's  while.  As  much  may  be  said  of 
Mr.  Ashurst— the  Hon.  Henry  F.  Ash- 
urst— chosen  Senator  the  other  day  by 
that  new  Commonwealth.  Mr.  Ashurst 
is  climbing  36.  Arizona,  counting  her 
years — civilized — claps  a  cipher  to  that 
figure,  and  locates  them  in  the  dust- 
laden  neighborhood  of  360. 

It  was  during  the  first  quarter  of  the 
fifteen  hundreds  that  Cortez,  nosing  into 
the  bay  of  Vera  Cruz,  began  roasting 
Montezuma  into  bankruptcy  and  ob- 
livion. Within  the  40  years  next  follow- 
ing these  acute  financial  operations,  the 
gold-seeking  Spaniards  had  pushed  their 
hungry  way  as   far  northward  as  Ari- 


zona.  They  came  arrayed  in  righteous- 
ness and  Milan  steel,  the  Bible  in  one 
hand,  the  sword  in  the  other,  "fully 
equipped" — as  one  of  their  chroniclers 
hath  it — "to  explain  hell  to  the  savages." 
Luther  was  scarce  cold  in  his  grave ; 
Calvin  was  threatening  and  thundering; 
Scottish  Mary  was  wearing  her  trouble- 
making  head ;  Henry  the  bluff  and 
bloated  was  robbing  monasteries,  mur- 
dering wives,  and  setting  up  a  new  re- 
ligion ;  Cervantes  was  writing  Don 
Quixote;  Bunyan  had  not  yet  dreamed 
his  dreams,  and  Shakespeare  was  still  to 
be  born,  in  an  hour  when  Arizona  could 
hold  herself  up  proudly  as  "settled  and 
civilized."  No;  there  is  in  her  origin 
nothing  recent,  nothing  of  the  immediate 
past.  As  a  people  she  is  quite  as  an- 
tique, quite  as  year- furrowed,  as  any- 
thing we  possess. 

WHERE   BONDAGE   IS  UNPOPULAR 

Mr.  Ashurst  "first  saw  the  light,"  as 
the  novel  writers  are  so  fond  of  saying, 
in  a  little  lonely  ranch  cabin  on  the  brow 
of  a  tall  Nevada  mountain.  It  is  good 
to  be  born  and  pass  your  boyhood  where 
the  view  is  uninterrupted  for  100  miles 
on  every  hand,  and  the  far-away  snow- 
capped ranges  form  the  rim  of  your 
world.  From  such  surroundings  come 
lessons  of  liberty.  The  Rockies,  claim- 
ing a  round  one-third  of  the  country's 
area,  are  in  themselves  a  very  tower  of 
popular  hope.  Given  mountains,  bond- 
age and  bondmen  are  out  of  the  question  ; 
the  slave,  in  the  nature  of  things,  is  a 
creature  of  the  lowlands.  Criminal 
money  may  cast  its  nets  over  the  balance 
of  American  men,  special  privilege  may 
brand  them  for  its  own ;  but  from  the 
Rockies  to  the  last  will  spring  a  race  of 
American  Swiss,  to  teach  those  lowland 
others  how  to  break  the  fetters  of  their 
captivity  of  gold. 

Cattle  wholly  engrossed  the  attention 
of  the  sparse  population  about  young 
Ashurst,  and  as  soon  as  he  could  sit  in  a 
saddle  he  took  to  cow-punching.  Before 
he  was  15  he  had  mastered  the  three  R's 
of  his  people,  and  could  handle  rifle,  rope 


and  running-iron  with  the  best  hand  on 
the  pampas.  He  drifted  south  into  Ari- 
zona and  won  rank  among  the  herds. 
Riding  the  range  or  in  the  branding-pen, 
"tailing  a  steer"  for  the  joy  of  making 
"it  swap  ends  with  itself,"  or  "flanking" 
a  calf  to  the  end  that  its  owner's  hiero- 
glyphics might  be  seared  upon  its  baby 
side,  he  always  met  life's  problems 
squarely.  He  combed  the  ridges,  ran- 
sacked the  canyons,  and  no  one  riding  in 
his  rear  for  mavericks  was  ever  known 
to  get  rich.  Work  done,  it  may  be  that 
he  speculated  modestly  at  roulette  and 
Mexican  monte,  or,  unbuckling  to  the 
strains  of  the  Arkansazv  Traveller,  loos- 
ened with  hilarious  heel  the  boards  of 
the  dance-hall  floors.  For  such  was  the 
then  manner  of  our  Southwestern  youth  ; 
and  so  was  the  world  about  young  Ash- 
urst made. 

There  is  a  waifword  that,  while  so 
as  aforesaid  punching  the  casual  cow, 
young  Ashurst  stepped  aside  for  a  space 
to  serve  as  deputy  sheriff.  It  may  well 
have  been ;  for  it  was  a  time  when  cattle 
were  being  rustled  and  stages  were  being 
stopped— a  time  when  Curly  Bill's  ad- 
dress was  the  Whetstone  Springs,  and  a 
cool  hand  behind  a  Colt's  .45  could  find 
employment  on  the  side  of  law  and 
order. 

While  not  neglecting  his  art  of  cows, 
somehow  about  the  camp-fires  young 
Ashurst  learned  to  read  and  write.  Thus 
he  commenced  to  rope  at  the  rudiments 
of  an  education.  Incidentally,  as  often 
happens,  that  book  taste  grew  with  what 
it  fed  on ;  and  at  18  he  sold  his  cow- 
boy belongings — blankets,  bridle,  saddle, 
rope,  "chaps,"  spurs,  and  six-shooter — to 
be  next  heard  of  by  history  in  Stockton, 
as  he  stood  rapping  at  the  gates  of 
learning. 

Two  years  of  Stockton,  and  the  books ! 
— and  all  with  special  reference  to  the 
law.  For  the  notion  had  seized  upon 
young  Ashurst  that  he  would  demand 
admission  to  the  bar.  There  was  more 
money,  more  fame,  in  law  than  in  cows. 
There  would  be  no  more  safety,  per- 
haps, in  forums  where,  upon  an  occasion 


when  a  badgered  witness  appealed  to  the 
court  for  protection,  the  court  silently 
but  sympathetically  passed  the  badgered 
one  its  gun.  But  then  young  Ashurst 
wasn't  looking  for  safety ;  his  ambition 
had  been  aroused  in  favor  of  advance- 
ment and  renown. 

Young  Ashurst  had  no  more  than  put 
his  20th  birthday  behind  him  when  he 
returned  to  Arizona  a  full-fledged  "at- 
torney and  counselor-at-law."  Settling 
in  the  town  of  Williams,  he  swung  his 
shingle  to  the  wind  and  invited  a  prac- 
tice. To  be  sure,  twenty  as  an  age  im- 
plies nothing  of  ripeness ;  but  responsi- 
bility comes  early  in  the  Southwest,  and 
young  Ashurst,  who  had  been  doing  a 
man's  work  for  a  man's  wage  ever  since 
he  was  ten,  may  be  forgiven  for  feeling 
himself  old  beyond  his  years.  In  any 
event,  confident  and  resolute,  there  he 
was  a  lawyer  before  he  could  vote.  Also, 
clients  came,  and  he  conquered  verdicts 
in  their  favor. 

The  age  we  live  in  is  as  important  as 
any  that  the  world  has  seen.  Some 
of  us  don't  realize  this,  which  is  natural 
enough.  Commonly,  no  age  is  appreci- 
ated until  two  or  more  centuries  after 
it  have  passed.  Then  folk  wake  up,  and 
the  historian  records  the  awakening.  As 
to  that  age  importance,  however,  Mr. 
Ashurst  was  not  blind.  He  felt  and 
understood  the  full  weight  of  his  hour, 
and,  thus  feeling  and  understanding,  re- 
solved to  bear  his  share. 

As  a  method  of  procedure  in  the  prem- 
ises, and  owning,  too,  some  inborn  bent 
for  politics,  Mr.  Ashurst  had  no  sooner 
established  himself  as  a  lawyer  than  he 
decided  to  hold  office.  Mr.  Ashurst, 
cetat  twenty,  cast  his  young  eye  upon 
the  territorial  legislature.  His  friends 
said  he  was  too  yearless  and  advised 
him  to  wait.  Mr.  Ashurst  pointed  out 
that  his  want  of  years  would  be  cured 
in  the  course  of  time ;  and  with  that — as 
recently  observed  another  celebrated 
character — he  cast  his  hat  into  the  ring. 
Whereat  his  friends — party  and  per- 
sonal— looked  troubled,  while  a  Republi- 
can opposition  derisively  grinned. 


The  campaign  that  ensued  was  a  cam- 
paign of  education.  It  educated  the  Ari- 
zona public  in  the  great  matter  of  Mr. 
Ashurst  himself.  He  was  heard  from 
100  stumps;  and  he  demonstrated  a 
studied,  not  to  say  a  surprising,  famili- 
arity with  politics.  He  smoked  out  the 
opposition  upon  every  issue  before  the 
people,  and  when  he  had  smoked  it  out 
he  ran  it  down  and  destroyed  it.  Before 
the  campaign  was  half  over  men  had 
ceased  to  mention  Mr.  Ashurst  for  his 
youth.  He  might  be  only  twenty;  but 
he  talked  and  thought  and  fought  like 
forty.  The  last  was  enough  fpr  Ari- 
zona, where  the  question  isn't,  How  long 
have  you  lived  ?  but,  What  can  you  do  ? 

"the  even  break"  his  motto 

Election  day  came,  and  the  ballot-box 
success  of  Mr.  Ashurst  was  as  the  suc- 
cess of  a  landslide;  also — as  showing 
how  well  he  performed  the  duties  of  his 
place — at  the  election  next  following  he 
romped  in  again.  This  time,  too,  his  col- 
leagues of  the  legislature  made  him 
Speaker  and  gave  him  the  gavel.  It 
marked  a  mighty  rush  forward.  Only 
four  years  before  he  had  been  jingling 
his  spurs,  an  unnoticed  cow-puncher; 
and  here  he  was — a  boy  just  old  enough 
to  vote — a  member  of  a  difficult  pro- 
fession, and  elevated  besides  by  his 
people  to  the  biggest  office  they  owned. 

Criminal  privilege's  citadels  of 
strength  are  in  the  East.  It  has,  however 
its  outposts  in  every  part  of  the  West, 
not  excepting  Arizona.  Criminal  priv- 
ilege, seeking  to  make  sheep  of  the  peo- 
ple and — with  the  help  of  the  courts  and 
other  contrivances  of  government — drive 
them  to  the  shearing-sheds,  collects  it- 
self in  Arizona  under  three  heads.  These 
are  variously  the  Bank  Trust,  the  Rail- 
road Trust,  and  the  Smelter  Trust. 
These  trusts  are  governed  from  Wall 
street,  with  its  Drexel-Morgans  and  its 
National  City  Banks. 

In  the  beginning  the  trust  Medusa 
paid  no  Arizona  heed  to  the  young  Per- 
seus over  at  Williams;  or,  if  she  did, 
it  was  but  to  bestow  upon  him  her  brief 


yet  bottomless  contempt.  What  could 
he  do?  Or  if  he  should  become  strong 
enough  to  threaten  her  politically,  could 
she  not,  with  one  glance  of  her  yellow 
eyes,  turn  him  into  unresisting  stone? 
The  trust  Medusa  changed  her  poison- 
ous note  before  Mr.  Ashurst  left  the 
legislature,  where  time  and  again  he 
stood  forth  in  defense  of  the  public. 
The  public,  too,  felt  the  power  of  his 
protection,  and  the  name  "Ashurst"  be- 
came as  a  word  in  the  land. 

Coming  from  the  legislature,  Mr.  Ash- 
urst was  twice  elected  prosecuting  at- 
torney of  his  county  at  Coconino.  In 
his  new  role  of  law  enforcer,  criminal 
privilege  found  even  less  joy  in  Mr.  Ash- 
urst than  it  had  found  in  him  as  a  law- 
maker. Under  his  ministrations,  the 
bank,  the  smelter,  or  the  railroad  was 
no  better  placed  than  the  individual. 
Just  as  another  publicist  took  for  his 
White  House  motto  "The  Square  Deal," 
so  Mr.  Ashurst  took  for  his,  as  prose- 
cuting attorney,  "The  Even  Break."  He 
was  in  no  sort  the  demagogue.  If  he 
remembered  the  poor  man's  penny,  he 
did  not  forget  the  rich  man's  pound,  and 
no  more  permitted  the  one  to  rob  than 
the  other  to  oppress. 

Criminal  privilege  didn't  like  this  atti- 
tude of  even  justice  on  the  part  of  Mr. 
Ashurst.  It  stormed  against  him  in  high 
places  and  sought  to  wither  him  with  its 
respectable  scorn.  All  in  vain !  Buy 
him  ?  He  was  beyond  a  price !  Flatter 
him?  He  was  no  more  to  be  flattered 
than  is  a  star!  Frighten  him?  You 
would  as  easily  put  down  an  Apache  up- 
rising by  a  resolution  of  the  Board  of 
Trade!  Criminal  privilege  found  itself 
powerless  in  the  mere  presence  of  a 
Man,  and  stood  wringing  its  saffron 
fingers  over  the  unwonted  strangeness 
of  things. 

HE  CHOSE  THE   HARDEST  WAY 

In  the  East,  in  New  York,  the  Roots 
had  achieved  eminence  and  wealth  as  the 
supple  servingmen  of  criminal  privilege. 
Mr.  Ashurst  had  but  to  lift  his  finger  to 
become  one  of  the  Roots  of  Arizona. 


He  could  have  had  position;  he  could 
have  had  gold;  he  could  have  had 
all  those  things  that  criminal  privi- 
lege is  in  the  habit  of  bestowing 
upon  its  supporters.  Republics  may  be 
ungrateful,  but  criminal  privilege  never 
is.  It  neglects  not  its  servants.  It  muz- 
zles not  the  ox  which  treadeth  out  the 
corn.  All  of  which  Mr.  Ashurst  well 
knew.  In  a  sense  worldly  he  put  behind 
him  the  fairest  of  prospects  and  re- 
nounced the  easiest  for  the  hardest  way. 
How  many  of  us  would  have  decided  as 
Mr.  Ashurst  decided? 

In  Arizona  the  selection  of  Senators 
is  a  matter  of  primary.  Failing  to  take 
him  out  of  the  race,  criminal  privilege 
made  the  candidates  against  Mr.  Ashurst 
as  many  as  it  might.  Thus,  besides  Mr. 
Ashurst,  five  Democratic  candidates 
asked  the  favor  of  the  people. 

Mr.  Ashurst  began  his  canvass  in  the 
city  of  Prescott.  He  could  look  forward 
to  little  or  less  help  from  the  press.  For, 
in  Arizona,  as  in  other  regions,  criminal 
privilege  is  not  without  its  ink-and-paper 
potentialities.  Also,  many  papers  that 
refuse  in  their  utterances  to  be  wholly 
controlled  are  still  ready  to  compromise 
by  remaining  neutral  or  mute.  Mr.  Ash- 
urst announced  his  candidacy  by  means 
of  handbills,  and  said— since  he  could 
get  no  hall — that  he  would  begin  his  bat- 
tle with  an  open-air  meeting. 

It  was  upon  an  afternoon  in  last  Sep- 
tember that  Mr.  Ashurst  fired  his  first 
gun.  Prescott  and  the  country  round 
about  gave  him  an  audience  of  thou- 
sands. He  opened  by  telling  them  "this 
is  not  to  be  a  pink-tea  campaign."  And 
then  he  started  in.  He  was  for  every- 
thing progressive  at  which  Mr.  Taft  and 
criminal  privilege  had  bared  their  re- 
actionary teeth.  He  was  for  the  election 
of  Senators  by  popular  vote.  He  was 
for  the  right  of  the  State  to  engage  in 
industrial  pursuits,  mine  its  own  coal, 
smelt  its  own  ores,  and  saw  its  own  tim- 
ber. He  was  for  tariff  reduction  and, 
save  for  revenue  reasons,  would  carry 
that  reduction  to  the  flat  levels  of  free 
trade.     He  was  for  a  parcels  post  and 


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the  public  ownership  of  public  utilities, 
on  arguments  of  service,  profit,  and  de- 
fense. He  was  for  the  initiative,  the 
referendum. 

Most  of  all,  Mr.  Ashurst  was  for  the 
recall;  and,  in  particular,  he  insisted 
upon  the  recall  for  judges.  He  took  up 
those  better  than-thou  pretentions,  so 
often  and  so  smugly  in  the  mouth  of  the 
bench,  and  refused  to  see  that  judges 
were  of  finer  clay  than  common  men. 
He  read  history,  and  showed  that  when- 
ever a  tyrant,  with  some  sword-lever  or 
law-lever,  went  prying  at  the  liberties  of 
the  people,  he  had  ever  found  on  the 
bench  a  Scroggs  or  a  bloody  Jeffreys 
ready  to  serve  as  the  fulcrum.  He 
quoted  a  tailor  to  the  effect  that  as 
many  pockets  were  put  into  a  suit  of 
clothes  for  a  judge  as  went  into  the 
raiment  of  a  mayor  or  a  councilman.  In 
brief,  he  handled  our  judges  as  freely, 
not  to  say  as  fiercely,  as  he  did  other 
officers  of  Government,  and  would  not 
agree  to  an  apotheosis  born  solely  of  a 
seat  on  the  bench. 

By  that  initial  Prescott  speech  Mr. 
Ashurst  drew  upon  himself  an  avalanche 
of  popular  admiration.  It  was  an  ora- 
tion— brilliant,  convincing.  That  speech 
established  him  as  the  leader  of  the 
younger  and  more  aggressive  among  the 
Democrats. 

Following  up  his  Prescott  triumph, 
Mr.  Ashurst  spoke  in  Flagstaff,  in  Tuc- 
son, in  Benson,  in  Tombstone,  in 
Phoenix,  in  every  corner  of  Arizona. 
Whenever  the  jackal  for  some  smelter  or 
some  railroad  interrupted  him — for 
criminal  privilege  had  ordered  its  full 
pack  to  take  his  trail — he  choked  him 
with  a  handful  of  statistics  or  beat  his 
controversial  brains  out  with  a  truth. 
Mr.  Ashurst  concluded  a  campaign, 
which  blazed  from  first  to  last,  by  poll- 
ing the  highest,  heaviest  vote  of  all. 

The  unbelievable  had  happened ;  Mr. 
Ashurst  was  chosen  Senator !  Where 
others  had  bought  in,  he  had  fought  in. 
Mr.  Ashurst  gives  forth  a  mixed  im- 
pression of  integrity  and  stubbornness, 
especially  stubbornness.    When  he  made 


his  Prescott  appearance,  those  whom  his 
plain  honesty  attracted  were  at  first  a 
bit  repelled  by  his  rock-rooted  manner. 
As  campaign  time  went  on,  however, 
men  noted  Mr.  Ashurst's  stubbornness 
less,  his  virtues  of  eloquence  and  courage 
and  combativeness  more,  and  the  warlike 
ones  began  to  feel  a  fondness  for  him ; 
and  in  his  stubborn  fashion  he  felt  a 
fondness  for  them ;  also,  for  all  his 
strength  and  rude  wealth  of  energy,  for 
all  his  iron  stubbornness,  Mr.  Ashurst 
was  ever  and  carefully  the  accurate 
gentleman.  Only,  in  the  virile  blaze  of 
his  manhood,  the  "gentleman"  became 
now  and  then  swallowed  up,  just  as  the 
sun  swallows  up  a  star,  which  twinkles 
on  invisible,  but  is  none  the  less  there. 

The  Senate  average  will  be  advanced 
by  the  advent  of  Mr.  Ashurst.  That  same 
Senate  of  late  years  has  been  running 
down  at  the  heel.  This  moral-mental 
shrinkage  is  greatly  the  work  of  crim- 
inal privilege,  which — politically  domi- 
nant in  most  States — never  fails  to  knock 
the  horns  off  force  and  originality  for 
fear  of  being  hurt;  all  of  which,  in  the 
narrower  sense,  is  excellent  for  Mr. 
Ashurst,  who — deep,  imaginative,  wise, 
brave,  honest,  and  capable  of  initiative — 
will  shine  out  against  such  a  background 
like  a  fire  in  a  forest. — From  the  World 
To-day  Magazine,  April,  1912. 


HON.  HENRY  F.  ASHURST 

It  has  been  stated  that  District  At- 
torney Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  not  to  be 
a  candidate  for  re-election.  The  voters 
of  Coconino  County  have  been  kind  to 
Mr.  Ashurst,  and  he,  in  return,  has  been 
faithful  and  honest  with  them.  As  dis- 
trict attorney,  he  has  served  the  people 
ably  and  set  an  example  for  fairness,  in- 
dustry, and  good  judgment  as  an  official 
which  we  trust  others  in  public  office  in 
future  years  in  the  county  will  follow. 
He  was  signally  put  to  the  test  in  the 
great  fight  in  this  county  between  the 
people  and  the  railroad,  and  he  resisted 
railroad  influence  and  stood  squarely  for 
the  people.     As  district  attorney  he  has 


been  one  of  the  leading  attorneys  for  the 
county  in  the  famous  lawsuit  brought  to 
compel  the  Grand  Canyon  Railroad  Com- 
pany to  pay  its  just  proportion  of  taxes, 
which  case  will  go  to  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States. 

In  the  prosecution  of  criminal  cases 
he  has  been,  as  is  highly  proper,  fair 
toward  the  accused,  and  has  been  so  well 
prepared  in  his  cases  that  he  has  fre- 
quently drawn  favorable  comment  from 
leading  attorneys  of  the  Territory.  He 
retires  from  the  district  attorney's  office 
vastly  more  popular  than  when  he  en- 
tered it,  and  this  popularity  has  been 
caused  by  his  method  of  performing  pub- 
lic business  in  a  practical  manner  and 
with  a  spirit  of  justice  toward  all. 
Quietly,  patiently,  and  good-naturedly, 
he  has  performed  valuable  services  to 
the  county. — From  Williams  News,  Au- 
gust 29,  1908. 


CONVINCING  ELOQUENCE  OF 
HENRY   ASHURST 

As  an  orator  pre-eminently  qualified  to 
take  the  highest  rank,  Mr.  Ashurst  must 
be  heard  to  be  appreciated.  Logical,  elo- 
quent, convincing,  there  swept  through 
all  his  eloquence  the  breath  of  the  gieat 
forest,  the  sighing  of  the  wind  through 
the  pines,  the  rush  of  torrents  springing 
from  the  mountain  peak — 

Where  stoops  the  eagle  to  his  prey; 
Where  furls  his  wings  at  close  of  day. 

Seldom  is  it  given  to  man  to  combine 
with  the  mastery  of  logic  such  imagery 
of  speech  and  perfect  harmony  of  rhet- 
oric, and  those  who  failed  to  hear  his 
splendid  effort  lost  an  intellectual  treat. — 
Tombstone  Prospector,  November,  1908. 


HENRY  ASHURST  SPEAKS  AT 
DOUGLAS 

Those  who  heard  the  speech  of  Hon. 
Henry  Ashurst  last  night  in  Douglas 
heard  one  of  the  very  best  political 
speeches  ever  delivered  in  this  city.  That 
was  the  universal  expression  of  opinion 


after  the  meeting  at  which  the  eloquent, 
earnest,  and  forceful  son  of  the  pine-clad 
hills  of  northern  Arizona  spoke  to  a  large 
audience  in  the  open-air  theater  for 
nearly  two  hours,  holding  the  close  at- 
tention of  500  or  600  hearers  from  start 
to  finish. — Douglas  International,  Sep- 
tember, 1911. 


"ORPHAN  HENRY" 

Hon.  Henry  Ashurst,  Democratic  can- 
didate for  the  United  States  Senate,  is 
expected  to  be  in  Douglas  tomorrow.  He 
will  get  a  warm  reception  here  from  the 
Democrats.  Mr.  Ashurst  led  the  Sena- 
torial race  in  Douglas,  as  he  did  in  Co- 
chise County,  and  the  slurs  of  the  Re- 
publican press  about  "Orphan  Henry" 
will  come  mighty  near  making  the  vote 
for  him  unanimous  at  the  December 
election,  if  kept  up.     Sabe? 

Republican  newspapers  are  slurringly 
referring  to  the  Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst 
as  "Orphan  Henry."  It  is  true  that  Ash- 
urst was  not  born  with  a  silver  spoon  in 
his  mouth ;  that  he  worked  on  the  range 
as  a  cowboy ;  and  that  after  he  arrived 
at  young  manhood  he  decided  to  enter 
the  profession  of  the  law,  working  days 
and  reading  nights  in  pursuit  of  his  pro- 
fessional education.  Is  there  anything 
in  such  a  life  to  call  for  the  slur  of 
"Orphan  Henry?"  The  voters  of  Ari- 
zona will  probably  give  an  emphatic  an- 
swer to  this  question  on  December  12. 
—  International-American,  November, 
1911. 


HON.  HENRY  F.  ASHURST 

The  many  friends  of  Hon.  Henry  F. 
Ashurst,  of  Coconino  County,  through- 
out Arizona,  will  be  pleased  to  learn  of 
his  triumph  in  the  political  campaign 
which  ended  last  Tuesday.  Mr.  Ashurst 
had  a  hard  fight  because  of  his  deter- 
mination to  break  up  a  band  of  political 
grafters  in  Coconino  County. 

The  re-election  of  Mr.  Ashurst  to  the 
office  of  district  attorney  shows  that  the 
people  of  Coconino  County  will  stay  by 


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a  man  who  is  willing  to  fight  for  official 
probity  and  clean  government. 

Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  one  of  the  bright- 
est young  men  in  the  Territory  of  Ari- 
zona. On  the  public  forum  he  has  few 
equals  as  an  eloquent  and  forceful 
speaker.  In  the  Territorial  Democratic 
convention  held  in  Bisbee,  Mr.  Ashurst 
charmed  the  delegates  and  spectators  by 
his  eloquent  portrayal  of  Republican 
abuses  and  Democratic  virtues.  In  sec- 
onding the  nomination  of  Mark  Smith 
he  tore  the  mask  from  the  Republican 
party  and  exposed  its  scheming  and  de- 
signing hypocrisy  in  its  pretended  war 
on  the  trusts  and  paid  an  eulogy  to  the 
faithful  service  of  Hon.  Mark  Smith  in 
saving  Arizona  from  joint  statehood  that 
was  not  equaled  during  the  entire  cam- 
paign.— Bisbee  Review,  November,  1906. 


"In  the  administration  of  county 
affairs  during  the  last  two  years,  we 
heartily  and  unreservedly  endorse  the 
integrity,  ability  and  devotion  to  duty  of 
Henry  F.  Ashurst,  the  present  district 
attorney,  in  his  vigorous  efforts  for  a 
fair,  impartial,  and  honest  administra- 
tion of  public  business." — Excerpt  from 
Democratic  platform  of  Coconino  Coun- 
ty, October,  1906. 


Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  the  honest, 
silver-tongued  orator  of  Arizona,  is  here 
this  week.  For  many  years  Mr.  Ashurst 
ably  and  conscientiously  looked  after  the 
interests  of  Coconino  County,  but  after 
the  election  of  1908,  in  which  Mr.  Ash- 
urst refused  to  again  be  a  candidate,  a 
larger  field  called  him,  and  now  Yavapai 
County  will  claim  the  first  Senator  from 
Arizona  upon  its  admission  to  state- 
hood.— Holbrook  News,  October,  1909. 


IS    STILL    CALLED    "HONORABLE" 
HENRY  F.  ASHURST 

Hon.  X.  N.  Steeves  presided  at  a 
Democratic  rally  in  Williams  the  night 
before  the  election  of  last  Tuesday  and 


told  the  following  story  regarding  the 
candidacy  for  re-election  of  District  At- 
torney Henry  F.  Ashurst.    He  said : 

"On  a  slab  in  a  morgue  years  ago  lay 
the  body  of  a  human  being.  A  stranger 
approached  the  keeper  of  the  morgue, 
lifted  the  white  sheet  which  covered  the 
remains  and  carefully  said:  'This  is  the 
body  of  the  Honorable  Jesse  James.' 

"  'Why,'  responded  the  keeper  of  the 
morgue,  'do  you  call  him  "the  honorable" 
Jesse  James?  He  was  a  notorious  out- 
law, cut-throat,  and  bandit.' 

"The  stranger  cautiously  responded :  'I 
call  him  "Honorable"  Jesse  James  be- 
cause I  am  not  quite  sure  that  he  is 
dead' ;  and  there  are  many  in  Coconino 
County  who  still  call  him  the  'Honorable' 
Henry  F.  Ashurst  because  they  are  not 
quite  sure  that  he  is  dead." 

It  is  doubtful  during  the  entire  cam- 
paign in  Coconino  County  if  a  finer  "hit" 
was  made  by  any  speaker  with  his  audi- 
ence, and  the  story  brought  forth  pro- 
longed cheers  for  Ashurst,  as  every  one 
knew  that  he  asks  no  odds  and  fears  no 
foe,  but  crashes  through  difficulties  like 
a  rhinoceros  through  a  tropical  jungle. — 
Arizona  Enterprise,  November,  1906. 


The  Republican  press  of  the  Territory 
has,  up  to  this  date,  made  Henry  F.  Ash- 
urst, Democratic  nominee  for  United 
States  Senator,  a  special  target  at  which 
to  discharge  its  venom  and  hurl  its  poi- 
soned shafts  of  slander.  But  slander 
usually  seeks  a  shining  mark.  It  has  cer- 
tainly done  so  in  this  instance,  and,  we 
believe,  without  avail.  Mr.  Ashurst  is 
particularly  nettling  to  the  Republican 
press  from  the  fact  that  he  is  not  only 
progressive,  but  also  aggressive  and  cour- 
ageous, and  has  torn  the  mask  from  the 
face  of  his  political  adversaries  with  un- 
trembling  hand.  Brought  to  Coconino 
County  before  his  baby  lips  could  lisp  the 
name  of  mother,  he  was  reared  in  the 
midst  of  a  mountain  environment  that 
was  ennobling,  inspiring,  and  broaden- 
ing. He  is  a  typical  Arizona  Highlander, 
honest,  self-reliant,   fearless  and   frank 


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and  direct  in  speech.  A  child  of  poverty, 
it  fell  to  his  lot  to  earn  money  with  which 
to  educate  himself.  But  he  was  equal  to 
the  task,  and  not  only  obtained  an  educa- 
tion, but  finally  paid  his  way  through  a 
law  school.  Brainy  and  brilliant,  he  has 
made  a  success  in  the  practice  of  law 
and  will  win  new  laurels  in  the  Senate  as 
a  champion  of  popular  government,  in 
which  he  is  an  earnest  believer. — Arizona 
Blade-Tribune,  November,  1911. 


Lest  we  forget,  please  let  us  remember 
that  Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  conceded 
to  be  one  of  the  brainiest  public  men  in 
Arizona  today,  many  years  a  Williams 
boy,  where  he  got  his  start  in  life,  for 
four  years  one  of  the  ablest  district  at- 
torneys Coconino  or  any  other  county 
ever  had,  is  continually  receiving  notices 
in  the  public  press  throughout  the  Terri- 
tory similar  to  the  following,  taken  from 
the  Kingman  Mineral  Wealth: 

"Hon.  Henry  Ashurst,  one  of  the  star 
lawyers  attending  this  court,  will  come 
before  the  Democratic  party  of  Arizona 
for  nomination  for  United  States  Sena- 
tor. It  will  take  a  swift  goer  to  beat 
Henry  for  the  nomination,  and  no  man 
can  kick  dust  in  his  eyes  after  the  nomi- 
nation. He  has  been  a  hard  worker  in 
the  Democratic  vineyard.  Whenever 
there  has  been  a  rally  requiring  the 
services  of  a  silver-tongued  progressive 
Democrat,  Ashurst  was  called  upon  and 
never  found  wanting.  He  is  not  as  old 
in  years  as  the  rock-ribbed  hills,  but  he 
is  of  the  age  of  Patrick  Henry  at  the 
time  he  said,  'Give  me  a  T-bone  well 
done.' 

"As  a  lawyer  of  ability,  Ashurst  is 
well  known,  and  as  a  legislator  he  served 
with  distinction  in  the  council  of  the 
twenty-second  assembly.  The  friends  of 
Henry  Ashurst  in  the  coming  State  of 
Arizona  are  thick  as  the  leaves  of  the 
forest  in  October.  His  abode  is  at  the 
city  of  Prescott,  but  his  dwelling-place 
is  first  in  the  hearts  of  his  country- 
men."— Williams  News,  May,  1911. 


HENRY  F.  ASHURST 

Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  a  man  of  the  soil. 
He  is  an  American,  tooth  and  toe-nail, 
and  he  seems  to  have  been  born  with  an 
ambition  to  become  a  United  States 
Senator  from  this  new  State.  He  wrote 
his  name  in  a  school  book  once,  and 
after  it  he  wrote  "United  States  Senator 
from  Arizona."  It  has  been  a  passion 
with  him  all  his  life.  He  realizes  that 
the  fame  of  a  Senator  fills  the  land  with 
a  pleasant  odor  or  a  bad  stench.  He 
lived  long  among  the  people  of  Arizona 
and  he  saw  that  they  are  sturdy.  He 
learned  that  they  are  honest.  And  he 
discovered  that  they  are  brave. 

He  either  was  naturally,  or  he  became 
all  of  these  things.  And  they  are  qual- 
ities which  must  be  congenital — they  are 
never  acquired.  A  veneer  imitation  of 
them  may  be,  but  not  the  genuine  article, 
and  veneers  do  not  do  well  in  Arizona. 
The  sun — and  other  things — warps  them 
quickly.     Ashurst  was  genuine. 

He  became  a  lawyer.  Then  he  became 
a  good  lawyer.  Then  he  became  a  cele- 
brated lawyer. 

After  that  he  figured  in  the  councils 
of  the  State.  And  he  demonstrated  that 
in  him  was  the  fire,  the  genius  of  con- 
structive statesmanship. 

Then  he  became  a  candidate  for  the 
nomination  for  United  States  Senator. 

Despite  the  calumny  of  an  opposition 
as  bitter  as  the  bite  of  a  Gila  monster, 
the  marvelous  executive  ability  of  the 
man,  coupled  with  an  almost  matchless 
reputation  for  integrity  and  honesty  of 
life,  aim,  and  purpose,  carried  him 
through  the  primary  a  winner  by  the 
biggest  vote  on  the  ticket.  There  was  a 
splendid  spectacle  in  that,  and  it  fur- 
nishes food  for  thought  in  the  minds  of 
the  careful  employer  of  big  men  for  ex- 
ecutive jobs.  Why  did  Henry  F.  Ash- 
urst, hounded  by  enemies  that  proved 
themselves  unscrupulous,  implacable,  and 
venomous,  succeed  in  convincing  the 
people  of  Arizona  that  he  was  not  the 
things  his  detractors  said  he  was  ?  How 
was  it  done? 


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By  a  clean  life  cleanly  lived.  By  his 
readiness  to  defend  his  honor.  By  his 
determination  to  keep  that  honor  un- 
sullied.— Arizona  Democrat,  December, 
1911. 


Henry  Ashurst  for  some  time  has  been 
in  the  field  for  the  Democratic  nomina- 
tion for  United  States  Senator. 

When  Mohave  '  County  Democracy 
goes  back  on  the  stately  Cicero  that  flies 
the  falcons  of  Ashurst,  birds  will  walk 
instead  of  fly,  the  trusts  will  bust  with 
too  much  natural  gas  or  drown  with  too 
much  water;  flowers  will  bloom  in  the 
fall,  tra  la,  and  the  desert  wear  the 
white  mantle  of  Alaska. 

Look  on  your  ballot  October  24  and 
you  will  see  the  name  of  Henry  F. 
Ashurst. 

Every  progressive  Democrat  should 
give  him  an  X.  He  is  the  Cicero  of  the 
Arizona  bar  and  will  be  a  credit  to  the 
new  State  in  the  Senate.  No  better  proof 
of  Ashurst's  progressiveness  is  neces- 
sary when  it  is  known  that  the  slippery 
machine  bosses  are  after  him  to  a  man 
with  their  machetes.  They  set  their 
time-clocks  and  run  to  cover  before  his 
mighty  range-finder  connects  with  their 
too  much  talkee.  Henry  is  one  of  the 
real  live  men  of  the  sun-kissed  land.  He 
is  for  the  man  that  needs  help  every 
time.  When  at  his  door-step  a  shivering 
brother  stands,  he  is  not  of  the  breed  to 
ask  the  cause  that  made  him  poor  or 
why  he  help  demands. — Our  Mineral 
Wealth,  October,  1911. 


Senator  Ashurst  is  stirring  the  leaves 
and  causing  Josh  and  Reuben  to  sit  up 
and  listen,  down  where  the  alfalfa 
grows.  It  is  all  the  same  to  Henry 
whom  he  talks  to ;  he  knows  the  troubles 
of  all  mankind,  and  he  would  rectify 
them,  too,  if  he  could  reach  from  pole  to 
pole  and  grasp  creation  in  his  span.  Sen- 
ator (before  taken)  Henry  F.  Ashurst 
is  the  kind  of  man  you  would  like  to 
meet  coming  down  Pennsylvania  avenue, 
with   a   thirst   and   hunger   pain.      Old 


Henry  would  overlook  your  double-soled 
hob-ironed  O.  K.  and  grab  you  with  a 
grizzly  paw  and  yank  you  into  the  Por- 
terhouse Cafe  de  la  Mumm  and  fill  your 
knapsack  with  the  brands  that  Senators 
feed  on.  Owing  to  a  scarcity  of  time 
and  space,  we  have  to  bring  this  over- 
ture to  a  conclusion,  but  we  will  come 
again  and  keep  coming  until  the  votes 
are  cast  and  number  48  is  rung  up  under 
the  Arizona  Star. — Our  Mineral  Wealth, 
September,  1911 


THE  COWBOY  SENATOR  FROM 
ARIZONA 

That  the  man  who  sets  his  heart  on 
the  achievement  of  a  given  object  and 
sets  his  pegs  continually  in  that  direc- 
tion stands  a  most  gratifying  chance  ul- 
timately to  reach  his  destination  is  well 
exemplified  in  the  case  of  Henry  F.  Ash- 
urst, one  of  the  new  Senators  from  the 
State  of  Arizona,  who  is  attracting  much 
attention  at  the  National  Capital.  The 
life  of  Henry  F.  Ashurst  reads  like  a 
genuine  romance  with  a  Southwestern 
setting  that  but  adds  to  its  charm.  Asked 
for  the  story  of  his  achievement,  this 
brilliant  young  product  of  the  Southwest 
said: 

"I  have  been  asked  to  set  down  the 
rule  of  conduct  that  brought  me,  a  one- 
time cowboy  of  the  Great  West,  to  the 
United  States  Senate.  There  is  but  one 
general  rule  for  any  man  to  follow,  and 
that  is,  do  what  he  believes  to  be  right, 
let  the  consequences  be  what  they  may. 

"At  the  age  of  ten,  when  a  schoolboy 
at  Flagstaff,  I  wrote  my  name  in  one  of 
my  books,  and  after  it  penned  these 
words :  'United  States  Senator  from 
Arizona.' 

"When  eleven  years  of  age  I  tried  to 
be  a  page  in  the  legislature  of  my  State 
and  was  defeated.  I  shook  my  fist  at 
the  members  who  refused  to  vote  for 
me,  and  said  I'd  be  back  in  a  few  years 
and  elect  some  pages  myself.  I  did  come 
back  when  I  was  twenty-one,  and  in  my 
second  term  was  elected  Speaker  of  the 
House. 


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"When  fifteen  I  left  the  Flagstaff  pub- 
lic school  to  become  a  cowboy  and  for 
four  years  rode  the  range  in  Coconino, 
Navajo,  and  Apache  counties,  graduat- 
ing from  the  range  to  become  a  deputy 
sheriff. 

"I  believe  the  jprophecy  written  by 
me  in  my  book  was  fulfilled  because  of 
these  things : 

"I  made  myself  as  familiar  with  the 
history  of  my  own  country  and  of  Eng- 
land as  it  was  possible  for  me  to  do. 

"I  always  paid  the  strictest  attention 
to  public  speaking,  studied  public  ques- 
tions, and  discussed  them  whenever  and 
wherever  I  could. 

"I  always  submerged  the  materialistic 
and  upheld  the  idealistic  side  of  life. 

"Since  my  coming  into  my  twenty-first 
year  I  have  been  a  militant,  unrelenting 
foe  of  special  privileges  in  any  form. 

"I  do  not  believe  in  the  right  of  prop- 
erty to  rule. 

"Tariff  for  protection  is  a  crime,  not 
defended  in  the  forum  of  conscience  nor 
at  the  bar  of  public  opinion. 

"I  have  always  told  the  truth  about 
myself  and,  when  charged  with  anything 
improper,  if  true,  I  admitted  it,  but  I 
whaled  the  fellow  that  lied  about  me. 

"I  never  spoke  an  evil  word  about  a 
human  being  behind  his  back. 

"Governments  should  be  maintained 
for  the  happiness  and  safety  of  man; 
their  primary  object  is  to  make  the  peo- 
ple happy,  virtuous,  and  contented. 

"Property  rights  are  inconsequential. 
The  rights  of  men  and  women  only  are 
essential. 

"Young  men  who  wish  to  come  to  the 
Senate  should  never  be  afraid.  They 
should  boldly  attack  things  that  are 
wrong  and  speak  their  mind,  no  matter 
in  what  presence. 

"I  despise  a  moral  coward  more  than 
I  do  a  crook. 

"We  do  not  necessarily  need  physical 
bravery;  it  is  the  bravery  of  spirit  that 
counts. 

"Above  all,  I  would  say  to  young  men : 
Fight  on,  and  care  nothing  about  results. 


Results  count  for  but  little  for  the  man 
who  is  making  the  fight. 

"I  have  read  the  Congressional  Record 
one  hour  a  day  for  the  last  ten  years.  I 
have  found  more  history,  more  philoso- 
phy, more  rhetoric  there  than  in  any 
publication  in  the  world.  If  limited  to 
only  one  thing  to  read,  by  all  means  let 
it  be  the  Congressional  Record. 

"When  you  fight  for  a  cause,  fight 
hard.  When  I  made  my  fight  for  the 
Senate  I  said  to  the  people :  This  will 
not  be  a  mollycoddle  campaign.  This 
will  be  no  pink-tea,  Japanese-lantern  af- 
fair, and  those  who  cannot  stand  a  jolt 
on  the  jaw  would  better  keep  out  of  the 
ring." 

Inspired  by  such  lofty  ideals,  actuated 
by  such  commendable  purposes,  and 
backed  by  such  unflagging  zeal  and  de- 
termination, it  is  no  wonder  that  Henry 
Ashurst  has  succeeded  in  reaching  the 
goal  of  his  ambition.  Setting  the  peg  of 
desired  achievement  far  beyond  the  con- 
fines of  his  environment,  he  worked 
steadily  and  unremittingly  in  that  one 
direction,  ever  determined  to  move  up  to 
the  place  where  he  had  set  his  peg,  and 
continually  striving  in  the  same  connec- 
tion to  so  shape  his  life  that  when  the 
opportunity  came  he  would  prove  worthy 
of  its  realization.  He  qualified  himself 
for  the  work  he  had  mapped  out  as  the 
culmination  of  his  political  career,  and 
through  the  earnestness  and  cleanness 
of  his  life  while  undergoing  preparation 
he  impressed  his  people  with  the  fact 
that  he  was  truly  worthy  of  his  ambition. 

What  Henry  Ashurst  has  achieved  in 
this  direction  is  worthy  the  careful  study 
and  emulation  of  other  young  men  of 
the  Southwest  who  may  one  day  be 
called  to  high  and  important  positions  in 
the  affairs  of  Government.  His  achieve- 
ment has  blazed  the  way  for  those  who 
may  come  after  him,  and  if  emulated  by 
those  who  are  looking  in  the  same  direc- 
tion will  insure  to  the  Southwest  the 
type  of  statesmanship  that  stands  for 
something. 

Henry  Ashurst  is  a  fine  type  of  the 
militant  spirit  of  the  Great  Southwest. 


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He  is  a  natural  product — self-made  and 
under  no  necessity  for  tendering  an  apol- 
ogy for  the  finished  product.  He  is  a 
man  who  will  make  his  mark  in  Wash- 
ington, and  whose  presence  there  will 
continually  reflect  credit  on  the  Great 
Southwest. — El  Paso  Morning  Times. 
April,  1912. 


and  received  the  flattering  highest  vote 
cast  for  Senator,  and  in  the  advisory  vote 
taken  after  the  primary  he  still  led  the 
race.  —  Douglas  Daily  International, 
March,  1912. 


FULL  REALIZATION  OF  STATE- 
HOOD 

With  the  election  of  Hon.  Mark  Smith 
and  Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst  as  United 
States  Senators  by  the  Arizona  Legisla- 
ture yesterday,  the  people  of  Arizona 
come  into  the  full  measure  of  statehood 
and  are  now  on  an  equality  with  all 
other  States  in  the  Union.  Messrs. 
Smith  and  Ashurst  are  now  en  route  to 
Washington,  where  they  will  be  sworn 
in  as  Senators  of  the  United  States. 
Both  left  Arizona  carrying  the  best 
wishes  of  all,  regardless  of  politics. 
That  they  will  render  efficient  service  to 
the  new  State  will  be  doubted  by  none. 

Mr.  Ashurst  has  never  before  ren- 
dered service  for  Arizona  in  Washing- 
ton, but  he  has  a  record  for  accomplish- 
ment at  home  which  stands  boldy  to  his 
credit.  He  came  to  Arizona  a  child  of 
a  poor  parentage.  We  find  him  in  the 
State  Legislature  as  a  representative  of 
Coconino  County  when  he  was  barely 
twenty-one.  At  the  end  of  this  session 
we  find  him  admitted  to  the  bar.  Then 
we  see  him  in  an  Eastern  law  school, 
better  fitting  himself  for  his  chosen  pro- 
fession. Returning  from  the  law  school, 
we  next  see  him  in  the  council  as  again 
the  representative  of  Coconino  County. 
Then  he  returns  to  his  home,  and  during 
four  years,  as  district  attorney,  we  see 
him  fighting  against  privilege  with  en- 
ergy in  the  protection  of  the  treasury  of 
his  county,  those  who  would  exploit  for 
private  gain.  Long  before  Arizona  was 
admitted  as  a  State  it  was  agreed  that 
whoever  reached  the  United  States  Sen- 
ate from  Arizona  would  have  to  go 
after  defeating  the  "tall  sycamore  and 
young  Demosthenes"  of  the  northland. 
He  entered  the  primaries   for   Senator 


ASHURST  NAMED  BY  WOODS,  OF 
YAVAPAI 

Senator  Woods,  of  Yavapai,  nominat- 
ing Henry  F.  Ashurst  in  the  Senate, 
said: 

"The  Federal  Constitution  provides 
that  State  legislatures  shall  choose 
United  States  Senators.  Arizona  elected 
servants  for  their  State  Legislature  and 
said  to  them,  through  a  direct  advisory 
vote,  select  our  choice.  That  we  are 
sternly  determined  to  do.  It  has  been 
the  custom  for  names  to  be  presented 
before  balloting  proceeds.  The  distin- 
guished honor  of  presenting  one  of 
those  names  in  the  Senate  has  fallen  to 
my  lot.  I  have  been  requested,  and 
take  especial  pleasure  in  complying  with 
the  request,  to  present  the  name  of  a 
thoroughly  competent,  absolutely  fear- 
less, aggressively  progressive,  and  ac- 
tively honest  gentleman,  who  is  a  true 
friend  of  the  people.  This  gentleman 
is  from  the  northern  part  of  the  'Treas- 
ure Vault  of  the  World,'  and,  as  he 
shouldered  a  rifle  at  the  tender  age  of 
ten  years  and  defended  his  mother's  life 
from  Arizona  blood-thirsty  savages,  so 
will  he  take  up  the  people's  cause  and 
defend  their  rights  in  the  Nation's  coun- 
cil. While,  from  what  I  have  said,  it 
is  really  unnecessary  to  mention  this 
gentleman's  name,  still  it  is  such  a  pleas- 
ure that  I  repeat  the  name  of  one  of 
Arizona's  noblest  sons,  the  Honorable 
Henry  Fountain  Ashurst." 


LINNEY   NAMES   MAN   FROM   HILLS 

Mr.  Linney,  of  Yavapai,  nominating 
Ashurst  in  the  House,  said: 

"Arizona  is  one  of  the  free  American 
States  entitled  to  her  star  in  the  national 
emblem.  I  take  particular  pride  in  the 
fact  that  one  of  the  Senators-elect  is  a 


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citizen  of  Prescott,  the  mile-high  city, 
set  among  the  pine-covered  mountains 
which  pierce  the  clouds — when  there  are 
any  clouds — whose  valleys  lie  in  pleas- 
ant places  under  the  sun,  whose  forests 
are  filled  with  the  health-giving  odors  of 
pines  and  cedars,  so  wisely  provided  by 
nature  for  our  benefit. 

"Most  of  all,  Yavapai  County  prides 
herself  on  her  sons  and  daughters,  those 
who  comprise  her  strong  citizenry  and 
who  are  among  the  most  loyal,  consis- 
tent, and  patriotic  citizens  of  Arizona 
and  of  the  United  States.  And  from 
her  borders  the  people  of  Arizona  have 
chosen  a  leader,  a  man  to  carry  our 
standard  among  the  seats  of  the  mighty 
and  to  keep  it  unsullied  and  undis- 
honored,  that  all  who  come  after  him 
may  take  it  from  his  hand  battle-worn, 
but  clean. 

"And  the  man  they  have  chosen  is  a 
man  of  the  people,  a  man  of  high  ideals 
and  sincere  purposes,  possessing  the 
ability,  the  courage,  and  the  energy  to 
carry  his  convictions  to  their  ultimate 
conclusion.  We  honor  and  respect  him 
for  his  personal  worth,  for  his  high  and 
laudable  ambition,  and  for  the  indomit- 
able determination  and  perseverance 
with  which  he  has  persevered  in  that 
ambition  to  its  present  attainment. 

"Mr.  Speaker,  it  is  my  pleasure  and 
privilege,  for  the  people  of  Yavapai 
County  and  for  the  people  of  Arizona, 
to  nominate  for  United  States  Senator 
the  Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst." 


Under  the  so-called  "Oregon  Plan"  of 
popular  election  of  United  States  Sen- 
ators, both  Senator  Ashurst  and  Senator 
Smith  were  chosen  at  the  first  State  elec- 
tion. The  popular  choice  was  ratified  by 
the  legislature  in  electing  them  formally. 
Not  a  vote  was  recorded  in  the  legis- 
lature against  either  of  them,  Republican 
members  joining  with  the  Democrats  in 
carrying  out  the  expressed  will  of  the 
voters.  Moreover,  following  the  elec- 
tion there  was  witnessed  a  novel  spec- 


tacle, when  the  legislature  adjourned  and 
in  a  body  accompanied  the  newly  elected 
Senators  to  the  railroad  station  and 
bade  them  adieu  as  they  departed  from 
the  State  Capitol  for  Washington.  It 
was  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  any 
State  that  such  an  election  had  taken 
place,  and  there  is  also  the  further  fact 
to  be  added  that  their  election  to  the 
United  States  Senate  cost  neither  man 
a  single  penny.  That  much  for  Democ- 
racy and  the  people's  rule  in  the  new 
State-  of  Arizona. — Mack's  National 
Monthly,  May,  1912. 


ARIZONA'S    CLEAN   SKIRTS 

Arizona  for  years  has  been  a  subject 
for  jeers  and  sneers  of  older  States ;  yet, 
notwithstanding  this  slush,  Arizona  has 
been  a  Territory  for  nearly  fifty  years. 
She  has  been  governed  by  both  Repub- 
licans and  Democrats,  and  to  her  ever- 
lasting credit  let  it  be  said  that  not  one 
breath  of  scandal  has  ever  been  attached 
to  her  governmental  affairs.  Bribery 
and  crooked  politics  have  never  been 
recognized  in  sterling  old  Arizona.  We 
had  an  election  a  few  months  ago  to 
select  two  United  States  Senators,  and 
the  two  successful  gentlemen — Smith 
and  Ashurst — are  both  poor  men — poor 
in  all  that  goes  to  make  up  capital  and 
furnish  slush  funds  for  the  corruption 
of  voters,  but  rich  in  all  that  goes  to 
make  men — rich  in  integrity,  ability, 
and  sterling  manhood. 

Fifty  years  of  Arizona  life,  fifty  years 
of  clean,  honest  government,  fifty  years 
of  uncorrupted  manhood  that  have 
left  the  imprint  of  greatness  upon  our 
children,  that  is  the  gift  that  this  new 
State  presents  to  the  Government  of  the 
United  States.  We  send  it  two  men 
as  Senators  and  one  as  a  Congressman 
who  come  clear-handed,  untainted  by 
corruption  or  guile.  We  send  them  there 
as  champions  of  honest  government — of 
freedom,  liberty,  and  public  rights,  true 
to  their  constituents,  their  country,  and 
the  flag,  reliable  and  just ;  such  is  Ari- 
zona.   These  are  the  men  who  will  honor 


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her  in  the  Congress  of  the  Nation — 
honor  her  and  the  great  country  they 
will  represent.  Hail  to  the  new  State, 
incorruptible  and  free.  Long  may  her 
virtues  shine  in  this  sunny  land  of  ours. 
— Arizona  Democrat,  March,  1912. 


The  speeches  of  Senators  Ashurst  and 
Smith,  delivered  today  before  the  legis- 
lature, are  well  worth  the  careful  atten- 
tion of  their  constituents.  Both  speeches 
are  brilliant,  able,  and  instructive,  and 
demonstrate  fully  that  the  voters  of  this 
State  selected  two  of  the  ablest  men  in 
the  Southwest  to  the  United  States  Sen- 
ate. The  Southwest  has  not  had  their 
equal  in  the  upper  House  of  Congress 
since  the  death  of  Stephen  M.  White,  of 
California — one  of  the  Nation's  greatest 
men. 

Arizona's  two  Senators  will  probably 
awaken  the  pride  of  some  States  to  send 
their  ablest  and  best  men.  This  State 
has  indeed  been  fortunate. — Arizona 
Daily  Democrat,  March,  1912. 


STURDY  ARIZONA 

Arizona  takes  extreme  pride  in  point- 
ing to  the  election  of  two  men  to  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States  that  never 
expended  one  dollar  to  further  their 
election.  The  election  of  Smith  and 
Ashurst  as  Senators  from  Arizona  under 
such  conditions  ought  to  set  an  example 
in  decent  politics  that  would  put  to 
shame  the  bargain  and  sale  methods  of 
many  States  in  this  Union.  Dear,  clean, 
steadfast  old  Arizona,  she  can  always 
be  relied  upon  to  do  right,  and  the  reason 
is  that  she  has  the  highest  type  of  citi- 
zenship of  any  State  in  the  American 
Union.  —  Arizona  Democrat,  March, 
1912. 


Arizona  will  have  two  of  the  ablest, 
grandest  men  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States.  Mark  Smith  and  Henry  Ashurst 
are  a  great  pair  and  will  honor  Arizona 
in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. — 
Arizona  Democrat,  March,  1912. 


STATESMEN,  REAL  AND  NEAR 

After  having  a  big  run  for  the  last 
year  or  so  of  trim,  business-like  look- 
ing young  members,  the  United  States 
Senate  may  have  changed  its  luck  now 
by  taking  in  a  member  who  looks  like 
a  young  minister  fresh  from  the  sem- 
inary. 

Henry  F.  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  is  he. 
He  has  a  raven  black  mane,  combed 
straight  back  in  romantic  fashion,  and 
a  complexion  like  a  sweet  pea  or  a 
young  woman  who  does  all  the  things 
recommended  on  the  health  and  beauty 
page.  Moreover,  he  has  the  gentle, 
dreamy  eyes  of  a  doe,  and  is  as  soft 
spoken  as  a  relative  who  has  come  to 
borrow  money. 

But  Ashurst  was  a  cowboy  at  15, 
and  he  was  a  regular  cowboy.  There 
wasn't  anything  in  the  way  of  cowboy 
accomplishments,  such  as  roping 
steers,  playing  poker,  shooting,  drink- 
ing, and  the  like,  that  he  didn't  master. 
Also,  anybody  who  notes  how  much 
he  looks  like  the  young  man  that  fond 
mothers  point  out  to  their  growing 
sons  as  a  model — anybody  who  takes 
him  for  that  kind  and  gets  too  brash 
with  him  is  likely  to  be  disappointed. 

"The  way  to  do,"  says  Ashurst,  in 
his  quiet  way,  "is  to  be  honest  and  to 
permit  no  man  to  accuse  you  of  being 
anything  else." 

He  has  been  making  out  first  rate  on 
that  basis,  as  his  arrival  in  the  United 
States  Senate  at  the  age  of  36  should 
indicate. 

When  he  was  five  years  old,  Ashurst 
participated  in  a  little  incident  that 
probably  helped  to  give  him  his  fight- 
ing spirit.  Indians  attacked  their  little 
cabin  one  day  when  his  father  was 
away  from  home,  and  his  mother, 
armed  with  a  Winchester,  defended 
herself  and  her  two  children.  She  told 
little  Henry  and  his  sister  to  remain 
at  her  side,  so  that  if  it  came  to  the 
worst  she  could  shoot  them  and  her- 
self rather  than   have   them   captured 


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by  the  Indians.  Happily,  the  Indians 
were  scared  away,  but  young  Ashurst 
has  a  distinct  recollection  of  hanging 
around,  wondering  when  it  would  be 
time  for  him  to  be  shot. 

No  matter  how  thoroughly  he  makes 
good,  Ashurst  can  never  have  the  satis- 
faction of  having  his  birthplace  pointed 
out  by  the  megaphone  men  on  the 
sightseeing  wagons ;  for  the  fact  is 
that  he  was  born  in  a  tent  when  his 
parents  were  on  their  way  to  Arizona 
from  California,  and  not  even  a  tent 
stake  or  a  sardine  can  marks  the  place 
for  Ashurst  to  show  to  his  grand- 
children. 

The  thing  that  gave  Ashurst  his 
start,  though,  was  not  so  much  his 
humble  birthplace  as  "Abbott's  Lives 
of  the  Presidents."  His  father  made 
him  a  present  of  the  book  when  he 
was  six  years  old,  and  he  took  the 
statesman  proposition  seriously  right 
off  the  jump.  His  teachers  used  to  in- 
troduce him  to  school  visitors  as  the 
boy  who  intended  to  be  President. 

He  has  been  rummaging  after  all 
available  facts  in  American  history 
ever  since.  And,  in  addition,  he  is  said 
to  be  one  of  the  best-informed  men 
around  these  parts  on  the  subject  of 
English  history. 

But  here's  the  strangest  thing  about 
Ashurst :  The  fellow  has  been  read- 
ing the  Congressional  Record  without 
missing  an  issue  for  many  years.  He 
has  steadfastly  ignored  all  the  quips  and 
jokes  about  the  dullness  of  the  Record 
and  has  devoted  an  hour  a  day  to  it  since 
he  was  sixteen.  One  day  he  was  sitting 
in  .a  poker  game,  just  after  his  daily 
romp  through  the  Record,  and  he  made 
up  his  mind  that  he'd  just  simply  have 
to  get  into  public  affairs,  like  the  men 
he'd  been  reading  about.  So  he  left 
the  poker  game  on  some  pretext  and 
hasn't  done  any  drinking,  smoking  or 
gambling  since,  but  has  devoted  him- 
self entirely  to  getting  ready  to  be  a 
United  States  Senator. — By  Fred  C. 
Kelly,  in  Plain  Dealer,  April,  1912. 


ASHURST  VS.  BAILEY 

The  International  cannot  help,  in  this 
connection,  contrasting  the  speech  of 
Arizona's  able  Senator,  Ashurst,  made 
in  answer  to  that  of  Senator  Bailey, 
on  the  floor  of  the  Senate.  For  pure 
diction,  logic,  eloquence,  and  inspira- 
tion, nothing  equal  to  the  speech  of 
Senator  Ashurst  has  been  delivered  in 
the  United  States  Senate  for  many  a 
day.  He  showed  wherein  the  Texas 
Senator  miscomprehended  the  temper 
of  the  Democracy  of  the  nation  ;  where- 
in he  misdirected  the  attention  of  the 
people  in  an  effort  to  justify  his  own 
course  as  a  public  servant,  and  fairly 
burned  the  Texan  up  with  eloquent 
argument  on  the  topics  introduced  in 
the  Senate  on  that  recent  eventful  day. 
Every  Democrat  in  Arizona  should 
read  the  speech  of  Senator  Ashurst. 
It  appears  in  full  in  the  Congressional 
Record  of  January  2. — Douglas  Daily 
International,  January,  1913. 


A  POOR  MAN'S  COUNTRY 

"Lumber-jack,  cowboy,  clerk,  cashier 
in  a  store,  reporter,  hodcarrier,  and 
lawyer"  is  the  way  Senator  Ashurst's 
description  reads  in  the  new  Congres- 
sional Directory. 

The  world  is .  full  of  people  who 
lament  that  there  is  no  chance  for 
them ;  the  world  is  full  of  demagogues 
and  hypocrites  catering  to  the  obvious. 

Senator  Ashurst's  brief  biography  is 
a  complete  refutation  to  those  who  are 
envious  and  to  those  who  preach  to 
them.  The  door  of  hope  is  not  closed 
to  any  man  in  the  American  nation — 
never  has  been  and  never  will  be. 

Ability,  industry,  thrift,  honesty, 
tact;  these  are  the  steps  that  lead  up 
the  ladder  to  the  top.  We  don't  know, 
outside  of  the  Arizona  Senator's  brief 
biography,  just  how  he  got  to  the  top, 
but  we  do  know  that  he  has  climbed 
these  steps. 

It  is  not  difficult  to  imagine  that  the 
way  has  been  hard,  that  it  has  been 
full  of  perils  and  temptations;  indeed, 


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it  would  be  difficult  to  imagine  it  as 
anything  else.  But  we  have  not  heard 
the  new  Senator  bewailing  that  he  had 
a  hard  time  of  it  getting  to  the  top ; 
in  fact,  we  think  that,  like  most  men 
who  have  fought  their  way  up,  he  is 
probably  inclined  to  be  a  little  proud 
of  his  hard  knocks. 

You  often  hear  it  said  that  this  is  a 
country  for  the  rich  man.  The  little 
biography  of  Senator  Ashurst  proves 
it  to  be  otherwise. 

This  is  a  poor  man's  country — if  he 
wants  to  make  the  most  of  oppor- 
tunity.— Long  Beach  Telegram. 


THE    STAY-AT-HOME    SENATE 

Opponents  of  popular  government 
have  long  argued  that,  inasmuch  as  a 
large  percentage  of  the  electorate  stay 
at  home  election  day,  therefore  only  a 
small  minority  vote  upon  constitu- 
tional amendments,  referred  laws,  and 
measures  proposed  by  initiative  peti- 
tion. In  his  farewell  address  to  the 
Senate  and  country,  Mr.  Bailey  laid 
great  stress  on  this  argument,  only  to 
be  answered  in  most  surprising  fashion 
by  a  "recent"  Senator  from  the  newest 
State  in  the  Union — Mr.  Ashurst,  of 
progressive  Arizona,  who  said : 

"Admitting  for  the  sake  of  argument 
that  this  criticism  is  apt  and  just,  I  ask, 
Where  will  relief  be  found?  Certainly 
not  in  the  Senate !"  And  then  the  im- 
mature member  proceeded  to  read  the 
record  on  astonished  Senators.  Legis- 
lation in  the  Senate,  Mr.  Ashurst 
clearly  demonstrated,  is  frequently  de- 
termined by  a  vote  as  low  as  30  per 
cent  of  the  entire  membership,  with 
only  55  per  cent,  60  per  cent,  and  70 
per  cent  of  the  membership  of  the 
Senate  voting  on  the  measure.  "In 
other  words,"  he  explained,  "a  close 
investigation  will  disclose  that  there 
is  as  large  a  percentage  of  the  Senators 
not  voting  on  various  questions  as 
there  is  percentage  of  voters  in  a  State 
who  fail  or  decline  to  vote  upon  con- 


stitutional amendments,  referred  laws, 
or  measures  proposed  by  initiative." 

Clearly  another  argument  must  be 
found  in  the  future  to  assail  the  sys- 
tem of  direct  legislation,  popularly  des- 
ignated the  initiative  and  referendum 
— at  least  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States.  Although  Senators  are  paid 
a  salary  of  $7,500  a  year  to  be  in  their 
seats  and  vote  upon  measures  affect- 
ing the  people  of  their  respective 
States,  they  are  inclined,  as  the  record 
shows,  to  play  hooky.  Many  a  stay- 
at-home  voter  will  excuse  himself 
henceforth  by  the  observation  that  the 
example  of  "our  Senator"  is  good 
enough  for  him. — From  Country  Gentle- 
man, Philadelphia,  Pa.,  February  1, 
1913. 


SENATOR  ASHURST'S   SPEECH 

The  maiden  speech  of  Senator  Ash 
urst,  of  Arizona,  will  be  found  on 
another  page  of  the  Commoner.  It 
was  appropriate  that  Senator  Bailey 
should  be  answered  by  a  representa- 
tive of  Arizona,  since  Mr.  Taft's  veto 
of  that  State's  constitution  on  account 
of  the  recall  provision  brought  that  re- 
form into  the  foreground.  It  required 
some  courage  for  a  new  Senator  to  en- 
ter the  lists  against  Senator  Bailey, 
but  the  young  Senator  has  courage 
and  he  easily  demolished  the  specious 
arguments  offered  by  the  retiring 
Texas  statesman.  Mr.  Ashurst's  reply 
to  the  argument,  based  on  the  small 
vote  sometimes  cast  for  constitutional 
amendments,  was  conclusive.  He 
showed  that  important  measures  con- 
stantly pass  the  Senate  with  a  smaller 
percentage  voting,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  the  Senators  are  paid 
$7,500  per  year  to  stay  at  Washington 
and  vote.  The  whole  speech  will  re- 
pay reading. — Bryan's  Commoner,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1913. 


In  his  reply  to  Senator  Bailey's  as- 
sault upon  popular  government,  Sen- 


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ator  Ashurst  was  the  peer  of  the  Lone 
Star  orator  in  logic  and  eloquence,  and 
defined  and  defended  the  basic  prin- 
ciples of  democratic  government  with 
a  force  and  a  clarity  that  were  as  pleas- 
ing as  they  were  convincing. — Arizona 
Blade-Tribune,  February,  1913. 


INSPIRED  BY  HIGH  AIMS 

Henry  F.  Ashurst,  the  new  Senator 
from  Arizona,  is  said  to  have  written 
in  his  school-book  when  he  was  ten 
years  old  the  following:  "Henry  F. 
Ashurst,  United  States  Senator  from 
Arizona."  It  seems  the  new  Senator 
has  ever  since  been  controlled  by  the 
idea  that  he  was  to  enjoy  that  honor. 

History  records  many  similar  cases. 
It  is,  then,  a  good  doctrine  that  a  high 
purpose,  sincerely  avowed  and  faith- 
fully followed,  contributes  much  to  a 
person's  destiny.  It  is  an  important 
factor  in  a  boy's  education  that  he  has 
a  high  object  in  view  and  constantly 
presses  toward  it. 

He  may  not  win  the  precise  object  of 
his  ambition,  but  he  will  reach  some- 
thing quite  as  worthy  and  honorable. 
He  need  not  set  his  heart  upon  political 
distinction.  He  may  resolve  to  be  the 
best  botanist,  the  best  conversation- 
alist, the  leading  citizen  of  his  com- 
munity, to  have  the  most  attractive 
home  in  the  city,  and  a  score  of  other 
aspirations  that  are  fully  as  good  as 
to  want  to  be  a  United  States  Senator. 
The  three  R's  are  no  good  whatever 
unless  his  life  is  influenced  by  a  high 
ideal. — Journal,  Columbus,  Ohio,  March 
5,  1913. 


GENUINE    DEMOCRACY 

Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  of  Ari- 
zona, is  one  of  the  newest  and  youngest 
members  of  the  upper  chamber  of  Con- 
gress, but  his  love  of  truth  for  truth's 
sake  and  his  courage  in  standing  for 
it,  regardless  of  local  or  personal  in- 
terests, are  of  a  kind  which  ought  to 


bring  the  blush  of  shame  to  the  cheeks 
of  many  of  his  venerable  colleagues. 

Arguing  in  favor  of  the  abolition  of 
the  protective  tariff  duty  on  sugar  the 
other  day,  Senator  Ashurst  was  re- 
minded that  there  are  sugar-producing 
interests  in  his  State.  His  reply  was : 
'But  I  represent  300,000  sugar-eaters." 
Subsequently  his  attention  was  called 
to  the  wool-raising  interests  of  Ari- 
zona, to  which  he  refuses  to  extend 
tariff  taxation  through  his  vote.  His 
conclusive  and  effective  answer  was : 
"Also,  we  have  300,000  users  of  wool, 
and  they  mean  more  to  me  than  the 
few  men  who  are  engaged  in  the  wool 
business." 

This  is  the  real  simon-pure  Democ- 
racy, the  Democracy  which  places  the 
rights  of  the  many  above  the  greed  of 
the  few.  If  Congress  were  largely 
composed  of  men  of  the  Ashurst  stamp, 
the  Government  at  Washington  would 
soon  revert  to  what  its  founders  in- 
tended it  to  be :  a  Government  guaran- 
teeing equal  rights  to  all  classes  of  the 
citizenship  and  extending  special 
privileges  to  none. — From  Norfolk  Pilot, 
Norfolk,  Va. 


Henry  F.  Ashurst,  one  of  the  Sen- 
ators from  the  new  State  of  Arizona, 
is  the  man  with  the  pristine  player- 
piano  past.  If  you  have  ever  played 
one,  you  know  that  the  gentle  art  re- 
quires legwork,  handwork,,  and  head- 
work.  In  all  three  Mr.  Ashurst  has 
been  a  marvelous  performer  on  the 
player-piano  of  life.  He  has  never 
missed  a  key  in  the  treble  or  over- 
looked a  note  in  the  bass.  Using  his 
fingers  and  his  resilient  feet,  he  has 
struck  the  white  keys  and  jumped  on 
the  black,  always  producing  the  music 
of  optimism  and  never  wasting  a  min- 
ute on  a  dead  march  or  a  dirge.  That 
is  why  he  stands  now  in  the  Senate 
of  the  United  States  and  plays  all  the 
hymns,  horoscopes,  and  hexasemes  of 
triumph,  victory,  and  success. 

Henry  F.  has  done  about  all  there 
was  to  do,  ranging  from  manual  ma- 


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nipulation  to  mental  manifestations. 
He  has  been  a  youthful  student  in  Ari- 
zona, a  cowboy,  a  deputy  sheriff,  a  hod- 
earrier,  a  lumber-jack,  a  newspaper  re- 
porter, a  law  student,  a  member  of  the 
Arizona  Legislature  and  later  the 
Speaker  of  that  body,  a  member  of  the 
Territorial  Council,  a  district  attorney, 
a  practicing  lawyer,  and  a  United 
States  Senator.  That,  we  submit,  es- 
tablishes him  as  the  champion  light- 
fingered  performer  on  the  player-piano 
of  experience. 

He  was  fifteen  years  old  when  he 
flung  his  English  grammar,  slate,  and 
spelling-book  through  a  window  of  the 
Flagstaff  public  school  and,  hurling 
his  youthful  form  upon  a  bucking 
bronco,  accepted  the  nomination  as  a 
cowboy.  That  was  in  1890,  and  for  the 
next  four  years  he  "rode  the  range"  in 
three  counties — Coconino,  Navajo,  and 
Apache — which  was  enough  either  to 
take  the  heart  out  of  an  elephant  or  to 
make  a  man  as  brave  as  Jesse  James. 

Ashurst  is  one  man  who  made  up  his 
mind  in  his  boyhood  to  go  to  the 
United  States  Senate  and  finally 
achieved  his  ambition.  He  tells  the 
story  of  how,  at  the  age  of  ten,  he 
wrote  his  name  in  one  of  his  school- 
books  in  Flagstaff  and  put  after  it  the 
words,  "United  States  Senator  from 
Arizona."  And  that  in  itself  is  one  of 
the  prettiest  tunes  ever  drawn  forth 
from  the  complicated  insides  of  the 
player-piano — to  write  the  title  after 
your  name  at  the  age  of  ten  and  at 
thirty-seven  to  have  it  written  after 
your  name  on  the  pay  check  by  the 
sergeant-at-arms  of  the  Senate. 

He  was  asked  one  day  why  he  had 
succeeded,  and  here  are  the  reasons 
he  gave : 

"I  always  submerged  the  materialis- 
tic and  upheld  the  idealistic  side  of  life. 

"I  have  read  the  Congressional  Record 
one  hour  a  day  for  the  last  ten  years. 
I  have  found  more  history,  more 
philosophy,  more  rhetoric  there  than 
in  any  publication  in  the  world. 


"I  never  spoke  an  evil  word  about 
a  human  being  behind  his  back. 

"I  have  always  told  the  truth  about 
myself,  and  when  charged  with  any- 
thing improper,  if  true,  I  admitted  it; 
but  I  whaled  the  fellow  that  lied  about 
me." 

That  last  remark  gives  you  a  fine 
insight  into  the  character  of  this  Sen- 
ator from  Arizona.  When  he  entered 
the  fight  for  the  upper  House  of  the 
National  Congress,  he  announced  in 
rumbling  and  thunderous  tones,  "This 
will  be  no  pink-tea,  Japanese-lantern 
affair."  He  also  made  certain  per- 
tinent remarks  about  handing  a  few 
people  jolts  on  their  jaws  if  they  in- 
terfered with  him  unduly.  That's  one 
thing  about  him.  When  there  comes 
a  time  for  him  to  use  his  fists  in  a 
righteous  cause,  he  is  both  materialistic 
and  fistic — not  particularly  idealistic. 

And  backbone?  He  has  one  that 
that  would  make  the  vertebrae  of  the 
extinct  diplodoccus  look  like  a  yard- 
stick ;  and  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  diplodoccus  was  one  long,  incessant, 
unbreakable  backbone,  having  in  its 
system  enough  ivory  to  make  a  melted 
elephant  look  like  a  toothpick.  When 
he  entered  the  Senate  he  was  told  that 
he  should  keep  the  tariff  duty  on  sugar 
as  high  as  possible,  because  there  were 
sugar-producing  interests  in  this  State. 
"That,"  he  replied  simply,  "has  no  in- 
terest for  me,  so  long  as  I  remember 
that  there  are  300,000  eaters  of  sugar 
in  the  sovereign  State  of  Arizona." 
Backbone  ?  Diplodoccus  backbone  ?  We 
should  worry  in  the  affirmative !  When 
he  was  told  that  the  wool-raising  in- 
terests in  Arizona  had  the  call  on  him, 
he  replied  clearly  and  firmly,  "But  also 
there  are  300,000  woolly  wearers  of 
wool  in  Arizona."  In  the  language  of 
Col.  Franklin  P.  Morgan,  if  that  ain't 
diplodoccutian  backbone,  there  ain't  no 
such  thing. 

The  Arizonan,  blessed  with  a  chest 
that  was  developed  by  carrying  hods 
and  fighting  three  fast  rounds  with 
sawlogs,  has  a  wonderful  voice.     He 


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is  an  orator,  one  of  the  straight-from- 
the  -  shoulder,  heavy  -  fisted,  many  - 
worded  kind.  On  any  subject  he  can 
speak  at  will,  and  never  at  random. 
But,  if  you  turn  him  loose  on  woman 
suffrage,  he  makes  his  highest  flights 
above  the  Parnassian  heights,  flights 
to  a  fare-you-well-and-never-come- 
back.  As  a  verbose,  vibrant,  and 
vitriolic  cry  for  woman  suffrage,  the 
initiative,  referendum,  and  recall,  and 
a  Democratic  tariff  he  excels,  exceeds, 
excelsiors. 

In  short,  Mr.  Ashurst  is  the.  typical 
representative  of  the  State  from  which 
he  comes.  There  is  no  horse  he  can- 
not ride,  no  mine  he  cannot  explore, 
no  giant  tree  he  cannot  size  up  as  to 
its  lumber  capacity,  no  rolling  plain  he 
cannot  value  accurately.  And,  with 
it  all,  he  is  elegant  and  eloquent.  His 
fellow-Senators  recognize  him  as  a 
power  in  their  midst,  an  unswerving 
conscience,  and  an  undaunted  heart. 
Moreover,  he  is  still  convinced  that 
the  Congressional  Record  is  a  fine  piece 
of  literature,  which,  you  can  take  it 
from  us,  is  some  conviction ! — By  James 
Hay,  Jr.,  in  Washington  Post  Sundav 
Magazine  for  March  2,  1913. 


THE   RIGHT   KIND 

Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  is  the 
kind  of  Democrat  that  we  admire.  He 
believes  in  redeeming  pledges  and  liv- 
ing up  to  professions.  He  takes  no 
stock  in  that  kind  of  Democracy  that 
would  tax  the  other  fellow's  products 
and  exempt  his  own. 

He  received  a  letter  from  a  personal 
friend  of  his  at  home,  requesting  him 
to  oppose  any  reduction  of  the  tariff  on 
beef,  which  is  one  of  the  principal 
products  of  Arizona.  The  Senator  re- 
plied in  a  letter  that  he  afterwards  had 
inserted  in  the  Congressional  Record. 
This  letter  expressed  sentiments  that 
ought  to  be  held  and  acted  on  by  every 


Democrat  in  Congress.    We  give  some 
extracts  from  it : 


"The  Democratic  party  is  com- 
mitted, as  far  as  faith  and  honor  can 
bind  men,  to  reduce  the  tariff  on  the 
necessaries  of  life ;  and  I  could  not 
take  the  action  you  request  me  to  take 
unless  I  turned  traitor  to  every  prin- 
ciple I  have  been  advocating  since  1 
reached  majority.  Every  person  in 
the  world  is  a  free  trader  after  he  gets 
his  own  interests  protected.  *  *  * 
If  the  Democratic  party,  after  the 
promises  it  has  made  to  the  people  to 
reduce  the  tariff,  should  then  begin  to 
equivocate,  it  would  then  be  the  end — 
and  ought  to  be  the  end — of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party." 

From  the  Democratic  point  of  view, 
these  are  admirable  sentiments,  and 
they  are  ringingly  expressed.  They 
should  meet  the  cordial  approval  of 
every  Democratic  member  of  both 
houses  of  Congress. 

It  should  be  observed  that  the  com- 
modities, the  tariff  upon  which  he  was 
requested  by  his  friend  to  resist  lower- 
ing, were  all  necessaries  of  life,  the 
cost  of  which  entered  directly  into  the 
cost  of  living.  The  Democratic  party 
is  solemnly,  positively,  and  repeatedly 
pledged  to  so  adjust  its  "tariff  for  reve- 
nue" as  to  place  upon  the  necessaries 
of  life  the  lowest  possible  tariff,  even 
to  making  them  entirely  free,  if  possi- 
ble.— From  Tampa,  Fla.,  Times,  April 
17,  1913. 


THE  TARIFF 

Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  stands 
squarely  on  the  Democratic  platform 
on  the  tariff  issue.  Replying  to  a  resi- 
dent of  Arizona,  who  had  requested 
him  to  oppose  any  reduction  in  the 
tariff  on  meats,  cattle,  sheep,  or  wool, 
Senator  Ashurst  wrote  as  follows: 


"I  am  always    glad    to    please  my 
friends  in  Arizona,  but    I    cannot  do 


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what  you  ask.  I  shall  not  vote  to  per- 
mit one  set  of  men  to  make  money  im- 
properly at  the  expense  of  the  whole 
public.  No  legitimate  business  should 
require  a  gift,  bounty,  or  largess  from 
the  Government.  If  the  Democratic 
party,  after  the  promises  it  has  made 
to  the  people  to  reduce  the  tariff, 
should  then  begin  to  equivocate,  it 
would  be  the  end — and  ought  to  be 
the  end — of  the  Democratic  party." 

Senator  Ashurst's  letter  rings  true ; 
it  bristles  with  Democratic  principles, 
and  it  breathes  honesty  of  political 
purpose.  Should  all  of  the  Democrats 
in  Congress  take  the  position  which 
has  so  correctly  been  taken  by  Senator 
Ashurst,  the  Democratic  party  will  re- 
main in  power  indefinitely.  On  the 
other  hand,  should  the  Democrats 
break  their  solemn  pledges,  the  Demo- 
cratic party  will  be  beaten,  as  it  would 
deserve  to  be  beaten. — From  Santa  Fe, 
Neiv  Mexico,  Eagle,  April  13,  1913. 


SENATOR  ASHURST  DEFENDS 
MINING 

From  a  recent  telegram  from  Wash- 
ington in  the  New  York  World  it  is 
learned  that  Senator  Ashurst  and  Sec- 
retary Fisher  had  a  controversy  over 
the  recent  ruling  of  the  latter  in  the 
matter  of  patenting  mining  claims. 
Whether  the  Senator  from  Arizona 
made  an  impression  which  will  result 
in  the  reversal  of  that  unreasonable 
and  uncalled-for  decision  remains  to  be 
seen,  but  he  voiced  the  sentiment  of 
the  great  West  in  making  the  represen- 
tations which  he  did  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior. 


The  mining  interests  not  only  of 
Arizona,  but  of  the  entire  West,  will 
commend  and  applaud  the  action  of 
Senator  Ashurst  in  making  his  defense 
for  the  mining  interests  of  the  country 
and  to  secure  a  reversal  of  this  de- 
cision. Every  Senator  from  every 
Western  State  where  there  are  mines, 


and  every  Representative  in  Congress 
from  such  State  should  unite  with  him 
in  defense  of  mining.  According  to 
the  report,  the  conference  on  the  sub- 
ject with  the  Secretary  was  somewhat 
of  a  warm  nature,  but  Mr.  Ashurst  is 
capable  of  holding  his  own,  even  wth 
a  Secretary  of  the  Interior.  Polite, 
courteous,  and  affable  in  the  extreme, 
he  is  capable  of  meeting  an  opponent 
in  debate  or  discussing  on  any  honor- 
able plane  the  latter  may  choose. — 
Arizona  Gazette,  January,  1913. 


This  man  Ashurst,  who  is  our  Sen- 
ator, is  one  of  the  youngest  men  up 
here.  Black-haired,  eagle-eyed,  and 
on  the  job,  he  looks  to  me  like  the  real 
goods ;  and,  unless  I  miss  my  guess, 
in  the  days  to  come  he  will  make  a 
record. 

There  is  no  man  here  in  either  House 
who  stands  higher  and  whose  charac- 
ter and  ability  mean  more  than  Sen- 
ator Ashurst's. 

He  has  been  extremely  courteous, 
affable,  and  agreeable  to  your  com- 
mittee. 

We  went  down  this  morning,  with 
Senator  Ashurst  as  our  guide  and  rep- 
resentative, and  met  President  Wil- 
son.— Yuma  Sun,  May,  1913. 


Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst  has  been 
on  the  job  with  us  from  the  "go."  It 
has  never  been  too  late  or  too  early 
for  the  young  Senator  from  Arizona 
to  put  on  his  coat  and  hat  and  go  with 
us  to  see  the  "powers  that  be."  It  was 
he  who  opened  the  doors  of  the  office 
of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  to  us 
on  the  day  prior  to  the  beginning  of 
the  hearing  and  got  us  a  personal  in- 
terview when  others  said  that  it  could 
not  to  be  done.  It  was  Ashurst  who  took 
us  to  see  the  President,  and  it  was  Ash- 
urst who  has  advised  us  as  to  present- 
ing our  case,  and  has  suggested  many 
things  to  us  which  would  otherwise 
have  been  overlooked.    He  is  a  tireless 


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worker.  Here  in  Washington  he  is 
leading  a  clean  and  manly  life,  and 
I,  who  have  seen  an  endless  line  of 
politicians  come  and  go  within  the  last 
30  years,  predict  that  if  he  lives  and 
remains  in  public  life  he  will  be- 
come a  great  Senator  in  all  that  the 
word  implies,  and  that  is  saying  about 
as  much  as  can  be  said  of  any  man. — 
Yuma  Sun,  May  14,  1913. 


PRESSURE  BY  PROTECTED 
INTERESTS 

In  these  days  the  beneficiaries  of  the 
protective  tariff  system  are  working 
desperately  in  hope  of  mitigating  the 
extent  of  the  blow  to  their  selfish  in- 
terests, realizing  that  it  is  impossible 
to  avert  it  altogether.  They  are  mak- 
ing despairing  appeals  to  the  public  in 
general  and  to  members  of  Congress 
in  particular  for  a  preservation  of  the 
system  of  Federal  taxation  that  has 
proved  so  profitable  to  them  and  so 
oppressive  to  the  people. 

Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  of  Ari- 
zona, is  a  conspicuous  example  of  these 
sturdy  Democrats  who  are  not  afraid 
to  stand  up  for  what  they  believe  to 
be  right  in  the  face  of  urgent  requests 
to  support  the  protective  tariff  coming 
from  powerful  personal  interests  in 
their  States  or  districts. 

All  honor  to  Senator  Ashurst,  of 
Arizona.  His  name  will  be  called  early 
on  the  final  roll-call  on  the  tariff  bill  in 
the  Senate,  and  it  will  be  recorded  on 
the  roll  of  honor.  May  the  name  of 
every  other  Democratic  Senator  be 
found  there  also. — From  the  Wilming- 
ton, Del.,  "Every  Evening"  of  April  28, 
1913. 


AT  THE  PUBLIC  EXPENSE 

Shall  the  common  welfare  be  su- 
preme, or  shall  little  influential  groups 
get  special  privileges  from  the  Govern- 
ment? This  is  the  real  question  in- 
volved in  tariff  revision. 


Shall  a  few  sugar-growers  be  per- 
mitted to  levy  on  all  the  people?  Shall 
the  manufacturers  of  woolen  and  cot- 
ton goods  be  favored  heavily  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  Nation  as  a  whole? 

In  a  letter  to  his  constituents,  printed 
in  the  current  issue  of  Collier's  Weekly, 
Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  expresses 
clearly  and  forcefully  the  doctrine  of 
the  square  deal  as  applied  to  the  tariff: 
"/  shall  not  vote  to  permit  one  set  of 
men  to  make  money  improperly  at  the 
expense  of  the  whole  public.  No  legiti- 
mate business  should  require  a  gift, 
bounty,  or  largess  from  the  Govern- 
ment." 

In  connection  with  this  letter  should 
be  taken  the  statement  made  by  Sen- 
ator Ashurst  in  the  Senate  on  the 
opening  day: 

"The  other  day  some  gentlemen 
urged  me  to  oppose  a  reduction  of  the 
tariff  on  sugar.  My  reply  was  that  I 
am  concerned  with  seeing  to  it  that 
the  300,000  sugar  consumers  in  the 
State  of  Arizona  shall  have  considera- 
tion." 

The  immorality  of  the  standpat  posi- 
tion is  that  it  assumes  that  "one  set  of 
men"  should  be  permitted  "to  make 
money  improperly  at  the  expense  of 
the  whole  public." 

Where  private  interest  clashes  with 
public  welfare,  a  moral  issue  emerges. 
The  tariff  is  such  an  issue. — From  the 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  "Star"  of  April 
26,  1913. 


A  SENATORIAL  SENTENCE 
SONGSTER 

The  gentleman  from  Arizona  livened  up 
the  "Congressional  Record"  the  other  day 
with  some  language  lullabies  that  deserve 
more  than  passing  attention.  It  is  a  real  re- 
lief to  momentarily  turn  and  listen  to  the 
music  of  a  muse.  Here  is  rhetoric  re- 
juvenated, thanks  to  Ashurst!  We  join  in 
the  benedictions  of  an  Arizonian  constituent 
who  said:     "You're  all  right,  Henry!" 

When  Arizona  came  into  the  Union, 
Henry  F.  Ashurst  came  into  the  United 
States  Senate. 


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Of  itself,  that  particular  event  bears 
no  significance.  But  now  that  Henry 
F.  Ashurst  has  become  comfortably 
at  ease  within  the  fiduciary  folds  of  his 
transmigratory  toga — as  Henry  would 
put  it — it  develops  that  the  people  of 
this  new  State  have  rejuvenated  the 
ancient  arts  of  rhythmic  rhetoric 
through  this  oratorical  oracle,  who 
bears  a  synthetic  senatorial  commis- 
sion from  this  virgin  Commonwealth 
of  the  scenographic  Southwest — as 
Henry  would  say. 

It  is  so  thoroughly  out  of  the  ordi- 
nary to  come  across  the  poetry  of  siren 
sentences  and  the  music  of  soft  painted 
words  in  the  midst  of  the  Congressional 
Record,  which  ordinarily  bristles  with 
the  unsympathetic  language  of  freight 
rates  and  tariff  percentages,  that  we 
turn  aside  from  the  routine  things  for 
just  a  passing  moment  this  morning 
to  permit  communion  with  the  alluring, 
limpid,  luminous,  lustral,  lyric  lan- 
guage lullabies  which  Senator  Ashurst 
wrests  from  dictionaries  and  thesaurus. 

Our  ineffable  interest  in  the  gentle- 
man from  Arizona — as  a  sentence 
songster — reached  its  ultima  thule  (as 
Henry  would  say)  the  other  day  when 
the  Senate  was  discussing  appropria- 
tions for  various  national  parks. 

Now,  Arizona  was  asking  for  no 
Federal  funds  with  which  to  primp ; 
but,  of  course,  the  other  States,  which 
were,  found  it  necessary  to  put  forward 
their  best  pleaders  in  description  of 
the  wonders  and  the  beauties  and  the 
grandeur  of  their  native  heaths. 

The  Honorable  Henry  stood  the  in- 
undation in  silence  as  long  as  he  could ; 
then  his  love  for  good  old  Arizona,  his 
righteous  faith  in  Arizona's  charms, 
and  his  tidal  tongue  called  self-asser- 
tion. 

The  gentleman  from  Arizona  rose 
and  addressed  his  confreres;  and  we 
submit  that  this  anhelous,  ambient 
allegory  entitles  him  to  the  affections 
of  all  who  still  love  "tuneful  tropes 
and  sibilant  synonyms."    Said  he: 

"Mr.  President,  I  trust  it  will  not  be 


deemed  an  act  of  temerity  for  me  to 
engage  in  this  discussion,  but  since  it 
seems  to  be  very  largely  a  discussion 
with  reference  to  scenery  throughout 
the  States  of  the  West,  and  has  been 
carried  on  with  much  camaraderie,  I 
bhall  say  that  the  greatest  natural  won- 
der in  the  world  is  the  Grand  Canyon 
in  Arizona.  We  do  not  ask  for  any 
appropriation  for  the  purpose  of 
beautifying  that  canyon,  because  the 
God  of  the  eternities  has  beautified  it, 
but  we  do  ask  that  no  corporation  be 
granted  special  privileges  there  to  con- 
struct and  maintain  hotels  to  the  ex- 
clusion of  others. 

"Senators  have  risen  and  in  chaste 
rhetoric  described  the  natural  scenery 
within  their  States.  Mr.  President,  I 
direct  the  attention  of  the  Senate  and 
the  Nation  to  the  great  State  of  Ari- 
zona— the  land,  some  say,  of  the 
desert.  In  some  places,  if  you  please, 
it  is  the  land  of  the  scarlet  glory  of  the 
blossoming  desert  cactus ;  but  in  truth 
Arizona  is  the  paradise  for  the  sight- 
seer, the  thinker,  the  dreamer,  the 
scientist,  and  the  geologist.  It  is  a 
land  of  frequent  astonishment  and  per- 
petual delight.  Think  of  the  ice  caves 
9  miles  from  Flagstaff,  where,  in  mid- 
summer, pyramids  and  stalactites  of 
ice  are  found,  like  those  that  glitter 
around  Niagara  in  midwinter — stately, 
clear,  and  cold.  Fifteen  miles  from 
Flagstaff  is  to  be  found  the  Black 
Crater,  in  the  center  of  the  largest  lava 
beds  in  the  world,  where  400  years  ago, 
in  the  language  of  Shakespeare,  'dis- 
eased nature  once  broke  forth  in 
strange  eruptions.' 

"Some  years  ago  I  camped  one  sum- 
mer's night  high  up  on  the  southern 
slopes  of  the  great  San  Francisco 
peaks.  I  awoke  early,  just  as  the  blue 
lance  heads  of  dawn  were  shooting  up 
from  the  eastern  horizon.  'Here  and 
there  other  mountain  peaks  soon  be- 
gan to  break  through  the  vapory  seas 
that  filled  the  gorges,  like  an  island 
whose  jutting  and  confounded  base 
was  swelled  by  the  wild  and  wasteful 


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ocean.'  I  saw  the  unnumbered  stars 
and  their  shining  trains,  recede  before 
lambent  pillars  of  fire  that  pierced  the 
zenith;  and  the  moon,  refulgent  lamp 
of  night,  paled  her  silvery  brightness 
as  the  curtain  of  day  still  farther 
lifted,  and  over  heaven's  clear  azure 
the  sun  began  to  spread  its  golden 
gleam.  1  climbed  to  the  top  of  Mount 
Agassiz,  the  monarch  of  Arizona's 
mountains ;  from  the  top  of  the  moun- 
tain I  looked  toward  the  east  across  a 
silent  forest  of  vivid  green — a  wilder- 
ness of  verdure — to  the  far-famed 
'Painted  Desert,'  which,  with  har- 
monious confusion,  lay  spread  100 
miles  away — a  sea  of  jasper,  with  a 
beach  of  sulphur,  empurpled  with  ce- 
lestial fire. 

"Cultivated  persons  declare  that 
much  pleasure  and  mental  exhilara- 
tion are  derived  by  viewing  the  em- 
bellishments and  accomplishments  of 
liberty  and  civilization,  but  it  seems 
to  me  that  of  all  earthly  things  calcu- 
lated to  strike  a  reflective  and  imagina- 
tive mind,  nothing  can  compare  to  the 
Grand  Canyon  which  I  saw  60  miles  to 
the  north,  with  its  sapphire  walls  that 
seem  to  prop  the  recumbent  sky — the 
Grand  Canyon;  whose  formation  car- 
ries the  mind  back  to  primordial  chaos, 
the  sight  of  which  causes  the  beholder 
to  feel  as  if  he  were  'treading  the  upper 
air  and  walking  the  milky  way,'  and 
which  brings  a  rapturous  exhalation 
of  spirit  which  only  the  enchanted  soul 
may  know. 

"The  magnificence  of  the  physical 
world  and  its  resistless  influence  upon 
human  character  have  ever  been  fa- 
vorite themes  of  contemplation  by 
those  minds  that  discern  mental  and 
moral  evolution  flowing  from  environ- 
ment, as  well  as  themes  of  profound 
interest  to  those  who  delight  in  study- 
ing and  attempting  to  solve  the  mys- 
teries of  nature  and  the  enigmas  of  the 
universe. 

"Arizona,  that  wide  empire  of  unsur- 
passed scenic  grandeur,  filled  with  an 
endless  variety  of  natural  wonders,  has 


excited  the  lofty  and  honorable  senti- 
ments of  her  children  and  has  show- 
ered an  elevating  and  beneficent  in- 
fluence upon  her  people." 

Our  compliments  to  the  new  Sen- 
ator from  Arizona. 

This  sort  of  thing  is  just  a  little  bit 
refreshing  in  the  midst  of  sordid  quest 
for  worldly  things  on  every  hand. 

Just  to  complete  the  picture — with 
a  glimpse  upon  the  other  side — this 
same  Henry  Ashurst  (would  you  be- 
lieve it)  was  also  quoted  only  a  few 
days  ago  as  follows  :• 

"When  I  hear  that  an  able  and 
healthy  person  of  the  male  sex  has  said 
anything  that's  injurious  to  my  charac- 
ter, I  look  him  up — I  search  him  out 
instanter.  'Did  you  or  did  you  not?' 
I  ask,  trying  to  look  calm  and  judicial. 
If  he  replies,  T  did  not,'  the  matter  is 
ended.  But  if  he  says  'yes''  I  further 
inquire,  'And  you  believe  it?'  Should 
he  stand  his  ground,  look  me  in  the  eye, 
and  opine  that  he  does,  then — biff." 

"It's  your  boast,"  the  interviewer  re- 
marked, "that  you  always  tell  the  truth 
yourself?" 

"I  make  no  boast ;  I  simply  assert 
what  is  a  common  practice.  Nor  will 
1  speak  an  evil  word  about  a  man  who 
is  not  present.  That  wouldn't  be 
.honorable.  When  I  am  on  the  stump 
and  something  is  thrown  in  my  face 
from  the  audience,  the  same  being  a 
fact,  I  exclaim :  'That's  so ;  I  plead 
guilty.  I  was  as  big  a  jackass  then  as 
is  the  man  who  now  asks  me  about  it. 
I  am  sorry;  he  isn't'  The  audience 
cheers,  the  newspapers  print  the  inci- 
dent, everybody  says,  'You  are  all 
right,  Henry.'  " 

"All  right?" 

"We  should  say  as  much." — Grand 
Rapids  Herald. 


POOR  MEN  AND  THE  PRIMARY 

The  cry  has  been  frequently  paraded 
and  is  now  heard  in  some  places  that 
the  operation  of  the  direct-primary  law 
is  antagonistic  to  the  chances  of  the 


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poor  man  in  politics.  Indeed,  it  is  one 
of  the  favorite  arguments  of  the  old- 
school  politician,  who,  out  of  his 
wealth  of  sympathy,  worries  himself 
into  the  ownership  of  a  corrugated 
brow  over  the  exclusion  of  the  poor 
man  from  political  preferment.  This 
is  one  of  the  really  laughable  things 
that  are  met  with — the  tremendous 
grieving  of  the  political  worker  for  the 
man  without  a  dollar. 

Senator  H.  F.  Ashurst,  of  Arizona, 
punctures  this  claim  very  neatly  in  a 
recent  contribution  to  a  New  York 
newspaper,  and  aptly  quotes  himself 
as  an  example  of  the  poor  man  who 
was  elected  to  the  United  States  Sen- 
ate. The  Arizona  Senator  puts  the 
case  so  conclusively,  and  withal  shows 
the  strength  of  the  forces  which  were 
arrayed  against  him  to  emphasize  hi^ 
point,  that  we  give  a  paragraph  from 
his  communication.    Here  it  is  : 

"In  Arizona  we  have  a  state-wide 
primary  law  for  the  nomination  of  all 
candidates,  including  the  United  States 
Senators,  and  while  it  might  seem  un- 
gracious in  me  to  praise  the  bridge 
which  carried  me  over,  I  cannot  refrain 
from  observing  that  in  Arizona  I,  a 
poor  man,  with  absolutely  no  income 
whatever  except  my  small  law  prac- 
tice, was  enabled  by  means  of  the 
direct  primary,  where  the  people  had 
the  right  to  express  their  choice,  to  de- 
feat the  combined  influences  of  the 
railroads,  national  banks,  the  smelter 
trust,  and  every  corrupt  politician  in 
the  State,  all  of  which  interests  con- 
federated and  combined  in  the  hope  of 
bringing  about  my  defeat  and  electing 
a  reactionary." 

Under  the  old  convention  system  the 
chances  are  that  Senator  Ashurst 
would  not  have  got  within  miles  of  a 
nomination  and,  of  course,  would  not 
be  Senator  now.  The  Arizona  inter- 
ests would  have  packed  the  conven- 
tion to  a  fare-you-well  against  him. 
The  primary  law  not  alone  whipped 
the  candidate  of  the  reactionaries,  but 
gave    a    good,    efficient    Senator,    al- 


though poor  in  material  wealth,  to  the 
people  of  Arizona. — Rocky  Mountain 
Nezvs,  June  12,  1913. 


"FELLOW-CITIZENS" 

"It  is  anomalous  and  archaic,  in  a 
free  republic,  to  deny  to  one-half  its 
citizens  the  right  of  exercising  a  valu- 
able function  of  citizenship  —  the 
elective  franchise.  And  this  anomaly 
becomes  odious  and  abhorrent  when 
we  reflect  that  the  particular  half  of 
citizenship  thus  excluded  is  the  iden- 
tical half  from  which  springs  so  much 
wisdom,  courage,  cheer,  hope  and  good 
counsel."  Strong  words,  brethren, 
strong  words.  And  good  words.  And 
the  stronger  and  better  because  they 
come  from  an  unexpected  quarter — 
the  United  States  Senate.     *     *     * 

Senator  Ashurst,  member  of  the 
committee  having  in  charge  the  Cham- 
berlain resolution  providing  for  a  con- 
stitutional amendment  extending  the 
suffrage  to  women,  proves  in  his 
strong  report  that  even  a  Gibraltar  of 
privilege  and  repression  may  be  taken. 

"Man  deals  with  the  affairs  of  life; 
woman  deals  with  life  itself."  Sen- 
ator Ashurst  could  not  have  made 
plainer  his  plea  for  simple  justice  for 
women  citizens  deprived  of  their 
political  rights.  He  leaves  no  doubt 
of  his  belief  that  women  citizens  will 
measure  up  to  the  highest  standards 
of  citizenship.     *     *    * 

To  the  man  and  woman  interested 
in  life  rather  than  the  mere  affairs  of 
life,  to  those  who  love  humanity 
rather  than  party,  the  words  of  Sen- 
ator Ashurst  are  sweet  music. — The 
Leader,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  June  14,  1913. 


SENATOR  ASHURST  UNCOVERS  A 
GIGANTIC   GRAFT 

Senator  x\shurst  charges  that  this 
Government  has  paid  to  the  armor 
trust,  which  is  composed  of  the  Car- 
negie,  Bethlehem,   and   Midvale  com- 


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panies,  not  less  than  $45,000,000  in 
profits  for  the  armor  plate  that  went 
into  the  thirty-odd  armored  steel  ves- 
sels and  the  armored  cruisers.  The 
charge  is  probable  on  its  face,  because 
the  makers  of  armor  are  perhaps  as 
tight  a  trust  as  exists.  There  is  plenty 
of  evidence  that  trusts  which  Carnegie, 
Morgan,  Schwab,  and  their  kind  dom- 
inate, get  all  they  can  for  their  wares. 

It  has  always  been  a  mystery  to  the 
laymen  why  a  first-class  battleship  or 
cruiser  should  cost  eight  to  ten  mil- 
lions and  upward,  when  there  are  few 
buildings  on  land — largely  similar  in 
construction,  only  set  on  end — of  the 
most  magnificent  size  and  equipment 
that  approach  such  a  figure.  The 
answer  is  to  be  found  in  the  armor 
graft — we  call  it  graft,  because  it  rep- 
resents unfair  profits — which  typifies 
the  excessive  charges  on  the  hundred 
kinds  of  supplies  that  go  into  a  war- 
ship. 

One  of  the  most  disgraceful  chapters 
in  American  life  is  that  detailing  the 
methods  of  the  harpy  host  that  preyed 
on  the  necessities  of  our  Government 
in  the  days  when  civil  strife  combined 
with  foreign  hostility  to  threaten  its 
very  existence.  It  is  no  less  disgrace- 
ful in  our  days  of  prosperity  that  the 
trust  capitalists  who  owe  their  fortunes 
to  the  protection  of  the  Government 
are  bleeding  it  without  conscience. 

The  Government  should  make  its 
own  armor  plate,  as  it  makes  its  rifles 
at  our  arsenals. — Los  Angeles  Tribune, 
May,  1913. 


GRAFT    IN   ARMOR   PLATE 
CHARGED  BY  SENATOR 

Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  charges 
that  new  armor  plate  for  the  new 
dreadnaught  "Pennsylvania"  will  cost 
the  Government  $1,600,000  more  than 
it  should.  Eight  thousand  tons  of 
plate,  contracted  for  by  the  Republican 
administration  on  the  very  last  day  of 
its  existence,  were  at  a  price  heretofore 
unknown  in  the  history  of  naval  con- 


struction, says  the  Senator.  The  last 
record  price  for  armor  plate  was  $240 
per  ton  for  the  class  A  plates,  but  the 
plates  for  the  "Pennsylvania"  will  cost 
$454  per  ton.  The  Senator  may  be  in 
error,  but  any  way  the  matter  should 
be  investigated.- — San  Jose  Times,  May, 
1913. 


ON    DANGEROUS    GROUND 

Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  has 
achieved  notoriety  by  declaring  that 
maladministration  in  the  navy  has  cost 
the  Government  $6,000,000.  He  says 
that  the  armor  trust  has  been  sys- 
tematically mulcting  the  National 
Treasury  to  that  extent,  and  more,  and 
that  it  maintains  a  well-organized 
lobby  at  Washington  in  furtherance  of 
this  conspiracy. 

Senator  Ashurst  should  beware  the 
fate  of  Congressman  Lilley. — New  Lon- 
don Telegraph,  May,  1913. 


THE  ARMOR  PLATE  TRUST 

Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  has 
something  more  than  a  suspicion  that 
the  Carnegie,  the  Bethlehem,  and  the 
Midvale  steel  companies  constitute 
one  concern  when  they  come  to  a  bid 
on  armor  plate  for  the  Government. 
He  may  have  evidence  not  yet  dis- 
closed, but  his  statement  that  the  bids 
of  the  three  for  the  plate  wanted  for 
the  dreadnaught  "Pennsylvania"  dif- 
fered to  the  extent  of  only  $1  a  ton; 
that  the  price  agreed  on  is  $25  a  ton 
more  than  was  paid  in  the  previous 
contract,  and  that  the  present  contract 
at  over  $400  a  ton,  though  $250  would 
yield  a  good  profit,  has  been  divided 
between  the  three,  appears  to  be 
prima  facie  evidence  that  they  have 
formed  a  combination  in  violation  of  the 
Sherman  anti-trust  law. — New  Orleans 
Daily  Item,  May,  1913. 


Among  the  many  brilliant  addresses 
delivered  in  the  United  States  Senate 


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during  the  debate  on  the  tariff  bill,  that 
of  Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  of  Ari- 
zona, must  be  placed  in  the  front  rank. 
A  clear,  forcible  speaker,  thoroughly 
booked  on  the  subject,  he  presented  in 
a  calm,  forceful  manner  arguments  that 
were  incontrovertible  in  favor  of  the 
measure.  We  bespeak  for  the  ex- 
cellent address  of  United  States  Sen- 
ator Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  a  careful 
reading.  There  were  giants  in  that 
Senate  debate,  and  Senator  Ashurst 
was  one  of  them. — The  Delawarean, 
Dover,  Delezvare,  September,  1913. 


Although  there  is  $1,100  mileage  in 
Senator  Ashurst  deserting  his  post  and 
rushing  back  to  a  few  days'  vacation 
in  Arizona,  he  stands  his  ground  with 
his  eye  on  the  committee  room,  waiting 
for  the  currency  bill  to  come  forth.  He 
knows,  when  it  does,  that  blades  of 
steel  in  the  hands  of  champions  of  un- 
interrupted prosperity  will  be  neces- 
sary to  protect  it  from  the  Napoleons 
of  panics.  Henry  is  the  boy  with  the 
sleeping  sickness  in  his  right  duke, 
that  never  wavers  when  called  upon 
to  land  the  punch.  —  Our  Mineral 
Wealth,  November,  1913. 


PRAISE  FOR  ASHURST  AND  HIS 
GOOD    WORK 

Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst  is  making 
himself  very  popular  with  his  constit- 
uents in  this  country,  while  he  is  gain- 
ing much  fame  among  the  honored  law- 
makers in  the  National  Capital.  He 
is  not  alone  an  active  man  in  behalf  of 
his  constituents,  but  he  invariably  se- 
cures whatever  he  goes  after,  regard- 
less of  how  big  the  undertaking  hap- 
pens to  be.  About  one  year  ago  the 
McClure  Realty,  Loan  &  Trust  Com- 
pany took  up  the  matter  of  importation 
of  date  palms  from  Algiers,  where  the 
American  consul  at  that  point  had  in- 
formed Bernard  G.  Johnson  that  no 
additional  concessions  could  be  had  for 
the  exporting  of  date  shoots  for  that 


year.  This  company  asked  Senator 
Ashurst  to  take  this  matter  up  with 
the  State  Department.  He  called  upon 
Secretary  Knox  immediately,  and  pre- 
sented the  facts  in  the  case  as  fur- 
nished him  by  the  McClure  Company 
and  Mr.  Johnson.  The  State  Depart- 
ment cabled  the  Algerian  consul  to 
take  immediate  steps  for  such  conces- 
sions as  Senator  Ashurst's  constituents 
desired.  This  activity  continued  until 
April,  when  Secretary  Bryan  had  com- 
pleted the  necessary  steps  which  had 
been  undertaken  by  his  predecessor. 
The  McClure  Company  has  an  enorm- 
ous correspondence  from  the  State  De- 
partment, in  which  Senator  Ashurst's 
activity  in  this  matter  is  mentioned, 
and  it  is  needless  to  say  that  all  the 
concessions  asked  for  were  secured. 
As  a  result,  Mr.  Johnson  left  the  first 
of  last  April,  and  en  route  to  Algiers 
stopped  in  the  city  of  Washington, 
where  Senator  Ashurst  arranged  for 
an  audience  with  Secretary  Bryan, 
when  Mr.  Johnson  was  assured  upon 
his  reaching  the  African  date  country 
the  American  consul  would  give  him 
every  aid  in  arranging  for  the  conces- 
sions desired.  Mr.  Ashurst  also  gave 
him  letters  to  the  various  American 
consuls  abroad,  where  he  received 
many  courtesies.  Mr.  Johnson  secured 
and  imported  into  this  country  4,000 
date  shoots,  which  were  sent  to  the 
Coachella  Valley,  and  all  because  we 
had  an  active  Senator  in  Washington. 
The  Sun  believes  that  Senator  Ashurst 
is  deserving  of  great  commendation  for 
this  and  other  good  deeds  he  has  done 
for  his  constituents,  and  it  is  through 
his  good  work  that  the  Yuma  Valley  is 
to  receive  4,000  more  imported  date 
palms  this  year. — Yuma  Sun,  January, 
1914. 


Senator  Ashurst  is  the  youngest  mem- 
ber but  one — Senator  Lea,  of  Tennessee. 
Henry  has  the  punch  of  the  oldest  mem- 
ber. Since  going  to  the  Senate,  Henry 
has  ever  been  on  the  alert  to  uphold  the 
pledges  of  the  Democratic  platform  and 


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to  serve  his  State  and  friends.  With 
Carl  Hayden,  he  is  true  blue  where  the 
bullets  are  the  thickest.  Female  citizens 
of  this  State  will  not  forget  that  both 
Senator  Ashurst  and  Congressman  Hay- 
den have  ever  been  champions  of  their 
cause  long  before  they  received  the  bal- 
lot and  after. — Our  Mineral  Wealth, 
January,  1914. 


guard,  protect,  and  guide  them.  There 
is  no  question  about  this  at  all.. — Pres- 
cott  Courier,  November  6,  1914. 


Washington,  June  28.  —  Strenuous 
fighting  for  the  American  housewife  was 
done  in  the  Democratic  caucus  today. 
Led  by  Mr.  Ashurst,  a  formidable  con- 
tingent of  Senators  battled  to  obtain  for 
her  cheaper  dress  stuffs,  flannels,  and 
blankets.  The  struggles  were  almost  in 
vain,  and  only  the  possibility  of  a  minor 
concession  remained  at  the  last. 

When  the  caucus  resumed  considera- 
tion of  the  Underwood  Tariff  Bill  today, 
Mr.  Ashurst  moved  to  place  on  the  free 
list  woolen  stockings,  ready-made  cloth- 
ing, women's  and  girls'  skirts  and 
dresses,  blankets,  flannels,  and  all  those 
articles  to  which  he  referred  as  "daily 
necessities."  A  three  hours'  discussion 
followed  and  the  motion  was  lost. 

Another  amendment  proposed  by  Sen- 
ator Ashurst  for  the  benefit  of  house- 
wives, to  put  blankets  on  the  free  list, 
was  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee. 
— From  New  York  World,  June  29, 
1913. 


Senator  x-\shurst  is  glad  to  get  home 
and  all  people,  regardless  of  politics,  are 
busy  welcoming  him.  He  has  been 
true  to  Arizona  and  has  given  his  best 
efforts  all  along  the  line  in  every  direc- 
tion dictated  by  his  conscious.  His  rare 
ability,  backed  by  his  natural  courage, 
both  physical  and  moral,  will  ever  keep 
him  in  the  front  of  public  affairs  as  one 
of  the  ablest  champions  of  that  which  is 
right.  Two  words  tell  all  that  concerns 
man  here  and  hereafter,  and  these  two 
words  are  right  and  wrong,  and  our 
young  Democratic  friend  ever  strives  to 
be  on  the  side  of  right ;  and  there  is  no 
failure  or  defeat  for  any  who  so  strives, 
for  forces  the  most  potent  in   creation 


People  who  have  read  of  the  "cowboy 
Senator  from  the  wild  and  woolly  West" 
are  badly  disappointed  when  they  see 
Senator  Ashurst.  He  doesn't  wear  chaps 
and  a  revolver;  cowhide  boots  and  a  red 
hankerchief  are  no  part  of  his  dress. 
He  looks  like  any  other  big  man — open 
of  countenance,  big  of  frame,  courteous 
of  manner,  a  well-educated,  polished 
gentleman,  with  a  pleasing  voice  and  the 
ability  to  find  the  word  he  wants  for  the 
thing  he  wants  to  speak  about  at  the  in- 
stant he  wants  to  speak. 

"I  want  a  special  word  from  you,  Sen- 
ator, for  The  American  Boy  and  for  all 
the  thousands  of  American  boys  who 
will  read  of  you  in  its  pages,"  I  said  to 
him. 

"Tell  them  for  me,  then,"  he  said, 
"that  the  thing  that  counts  is  not  being 
a  Senator  or  a  public  servant,  a  Gover- 
nor or  a  President.  One  in  a  million 
can  be  Senator;  one  in  ninety  millions, 
once  in  four  years,  can  be  a  President. 
The  thing  that  counts  is  to  do  what  has 
to  be  done,  as  well  as  you  can.  Success 
in  life  is  neither  in  money  nor  in  fame. 
Dig  post-holes,  if  that's  the  best  you  can 
do" — the  Senator  was  talking  directly  to 
you  boys  then ! — "dig  post-holes,  and  if 
you  dig  good  post-holes,  post-holes  hon- 
est and  straight  and  deep  enough,  post- 
holes  dug  faithfully  and  well,  you  are 
a  success. 

"Make  money  if  you  can,  but  don't 
make  money  as  an  end — make  it  as  a 
means  to  an  end.  The  richest  man  in 
the  world  can  see  no  more  beautiful 
scenery  than  I  can,  can  laugh  no  more 
heartily  than  I  can,  can  sleep  no  more, 
eat  no  more  than  I  can.  The  richest 
men  have  to  worry.  Don't  you  worry  if 
things  go  wrong.  That's  the  time  to 
think,  not  of  how  bad  they  are,  but  of 
how  glad  you  are  that  they  are  not 
worse ;  then  pile  in  and  mend  them !" — 
By  C.  H.  Claudy,  in  American  Boy, 
October,  1914. 


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U.  S.  S.  Stewart, 
San  Diego,  Calv  March  5,  1913. 
Hon  H.  F.  Ashurst, 

U.  S.  Senator,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Sir:  I  desire  to  express  my  earnest 
thanks  and  appreciation  for  your  kind- 
ness in  giving  so  prompt  and  effective 
attention  to  my  telegram  of  Sunday,* 
March  2,  in  regard  to  the  trouble  my 
brother,  John  Kenneth  Turner,  is  in  in 
Mexico  City,  and  to  assure  you  that  I 
fully  believe,  should  my  brother  escape 
from  his  present  difficulty  with  his  life, 
that  in  a  very  great  measure  it  will  be 
due  to  the  fact  that  you  have  exerted 
yourself  in  his  behalf.  It  gives  me,  sir, 
the  very  warmest  feeling  to  know  that 
there  are  men  who  will  spare  no  pains 
to  assist  another  in  trouble ;  your  action 
has  relieved  my  anxiety  over  my  brother 
greatly  and  has  put  me  under  great  obli- 
gations to  you.    *    *    * 

Again  thinking  you  with  all  my  heart, 
I  am, 

Very  sincerely, 
(Signed)  R.  K.  Turner, 

Ensign,  U.  S.  Navy. 


Washington,  D.  G, 
December  29,  1914. 
Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst, 

Senator  from  Arizona,  Senate 
Office  Building. 
Dear  Sir  :  I  have  read  with  great  in- 
terest a  copy  of  your  speech  of  August 
13,  1914,  on  the  Clayton  Anti-Trust  Bill. 
I  very  much  desire  sixty-five  copies  for 
use  in  my  classes  in  Economics  and  Po- 
litical  Science. 

I  wish  to  make,  instruction  in  my 
classes  bear  upon  the  actual  conditions. 
Your  speech  sets  forth  in  the  best  form 
that  I  have  seen  the  actual  experience  of 
injunctions  by  the  courts  and  the  need 
of  the  limitations  in  the  Clayton  Anti- 
Trust  Bill. 

Very  respectfully, 

E.  L.  Parks, 
Professor  of  Economics  and  Po- 
litical Sciences,   Howard   Uni- 
versity, Washington,  D.  C. 


Bisbee,  Arizona, 
September  19,  1914. 
Hon.  Henry  F.  Ashurst, 

United  States  Senate,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 
Dear  Sir  :  At  its  meeting  last  evening 
the  Warren  District  Assembly  instructed 
me  to  express  to  you  its  appreciation 
and  thanks  for  your  able  defense  of 
labor  in  your  speech  on  the  Clayton  Anti- 
Trust  Bill. 

We  hope  in  the  future  there  will  be 
more  members  elected  to  the  Upper 
House  of  Congress  who  can  understand 
and  appreciate  the  motives  and  the  sacri- 
fices of  labor  in  its  efforts  to  advance 
the  day  of  social  justice. 

With  kindest  regards  and  esteem, 
I  am, 

Sincerely  yours, 

F.  J.  Perry, 
Secretary,  Warren  District  Trades 
Assembly;  Affiliated  with  A.  F. 
of  L. 


Remarks  of  Hon.  P.  W.  O'Sullivan,  County 
Attorney  of  Yavapai  County,  Introducing 
Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst  at  Democratic 
Rally  at  Prescott,  November  2,  1914. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  A  great  poet 
once  said : 

"The   man   who  would   succeed   in   earthly 
strife, 
Should    have    'Excelsior'    written    on    his 
life." 

We  have  with  us  this  evening  a  dis- 
tinguished Senator  of  the  United  States, 
who  fulfills  in  ever  respect  the  senti- 
ments of  the  poet,  because  "Excelsior" 
is  written  on  his  life. 

We  are  all  gratified  and  inspired  to 
meet  and  greet  our  illustrious  Senator, 
Henry  F.  Ashurst,  who,  after  a  long  so- 
journ at  Washington,  is  back  once  more 
to  his  native  heath  amidst  the  pleasant 
hills  and  verdant  valleys  of  old  Yavapai, 
where  the  mountains  are  clothed  in  a 
perennial  dress  of  undecayed  magnifi- 
cence and  where  the  pure  and  unvitiated 
atmosphere  of  our  salubrious  climate  will 
cause  his  blood  to  circulate  with  the  ef- 
fervescence of  champagne! 


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Fellow-citi  ens,  Senator  Ashurst  came 
into  public  life  like  the  Roman  patriot, 
Cincinnatus,  as  a  Democratic  soldier,  to 
lend  his  aid  to  the  cause  of  free  govern- 
ment, to  the  end  that  mankind  might  find 
in  him  an  unselfish  champion,  whose  life 
and  career  would  remain  untarnished 
and  unstained  like  the  Tancred,  whose 
name  lives  in  the  great  poem  of  Tasso ! 

In  the  words  of  another,  Senator  Ash- 
urst "has  never  swerved  from  the  nar- 
row path  of  duty;  the  song  of  the  siren 
has  never  tempted  him ;  the  tongue  of 
flattery  has  never  seduced  him ;  the  voice 
of  the  hyena  has  never  frightened  him; 
the  menace  of  tyranny  has  never  terri- 
fied him !" 

Brave,  undaunted,  and  uncompromis- 
ing in  the  cause  of  human  rights  and 
human  liberty,  he  stands  today — 

"Like    the    lone    rock    that    in    mid-ocean 
braves 
The   war   of  whirlwinds   and   the   dash   of 
waves" ! 

High  above  paltry  critics  and  sinister 
foes  stands  the  towering  form  of  Ari- 
zona's young  Chesterfield !  Like  Cheva- 
lier Bayard,  he  is  "without  fear  and 
without  reproach" ;  like  Lancelot  of  old, 
"a  knight  peerless."  His  star  shines  re- 
splendently  in  the  empyrean  like  Milton's 
imperial  wing!  Long  may  its  light  il- 
luminate the  palaces  of  freedom  and  the 
temple  of  fame!  Under  its  translucent 
dome  no  hoarder  of  gold  or  builder  of 
fortunes  can  monopolize  the  sunlight  or 
the  shade,  and  beneath  whose  clustered 
lamps  may  celestial  lightnings  play! 

I  can  place  no  brighter  laurel  on  the 
brow  of  Senator  Ashurst  than  to  recall 
at  this  time  the  apostrophe  to  Addison! 

"Statesman,    yet    friend    to    truth,    of    soul 

sincere, 
In  action  faithful  and  in  honor  clear; 
Who  broke  no  promise,  served  no  private 

end, 
Who   gained   no    title    and   who   lost   no 

friend!" 


He  traced  through  history  the  growth 
of  liberty  for  the  people,  how  authority 
was  wrested  from  the  kings  and  lodged 
in  the  people,  how  the  idea  of  liberty 
grew  from  age  to  age  until  today  it 
means  the  privilege  of  being  honest  with 
your  self,  your  neighbor  and  your  God, 
and  how  liberty  is  unifying  the  world. 

It  was  a  great  address,  one  of  the 
greatest  ever  heard  in  Minerva,  in  the  es- 
timation of  some  who  have  lived  here 
a  long  time.  Senator  Ashurst  can  get 
a  great  hearing  anytime  he  may  come  to 
Minerva.  The  people  discovered  a  great 
man  in  him,  the  kind  of  man  needed  in 
the  U.  S.  Senate.  —  Minerva,  Ohio, 
"News,"  August  26,  1915. 


Senator  Ashurst,  of  Arizona,  has  been 
one  of  the  most  persistent  Senators  in 
warning  the  administration  of  continual 
and  imminent  danger  to  Americans  along 
the  Mexican  border.  Events  have  shown 
the  correctness  of  the  views  of  Ashurst 
on  border  conditions. — "Douglas  Inter- 
national," March  12,  1916. 


The  address  of  the  day  was  made  by 
U.  S.  Senator  Henry  F.  Ashurst,  of 
Arizona,  his  theme  being  "The  Progress 
of  Liberty." 


FOR  GOVERNMENT   ARMOR   PLATE 
PLANT 

The  bill  of  Senator  Tillman,  provid- 
ing for  the  construction  of  a  govern- 
ment armor  plate  factory,  is  in  line  with 
the  nationalization  plan  of  the  Iowa  Sen- 
ator. This  bill  was  introduced  yester- 
day and  its  terms  are  in  accord  with  the 
outline  published  in  The  Post  yesterday. 
The  $11,000,000  appropriated  is  made 
immediately  available,  so  there  would  be 
no  delay  in  beginning  the  construction 
of  the  plant  as  soon  as  Congress  enacted 
the  legislation. 

The  proposition  for  a  government 
armor  plate  factory  is  the  crystallization 
of  plans  urged  by  Senator  Ashurst, 
of  Arizona,  almost  three  years  ago.  The 
Arizona  Senator  at  that  time  proposed 
a  resolution  for  the  very  thing  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Navy  now  is  demanding. — 
From  Washington  Post,  December  11, 
1915. 


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OFFICES:    101    B    STREET   S.    E. 
TiiirHONit    Cincoun  |  3gSO 


Sasbtagtoti.  8.  <&..  March  8,    1915. 


Senator  Henry  P.  Ashurst, 

Senate  Office  Bldg. , 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Dear  Sir: 

We  tfike  this  occasion  to  thank  you  personally 

and  on  behalf  of  the  railroad  employees  engaged  in  engine 

and  train  service  for  the  many  courtesies  extended  to  us 

on  their  account ,   and  for  your  efforts  in  furtherance  of 

legislation  looking  to  their  protection  and  betterment. 

We  have  derived  pleasure  from  our  association  with  you 

here,  and  we  be*?  to  remain,  with  high  esteem, 

Yours  respectfully, 


vice»President,    ^^> 
Legi  slat  ive  Represent  at  i  ve , 


T»- 


Vi  ce  »-Pre  sadeht , 
Legi  alat  ire  Repre  sent at  i  ve , 
B.   of  R.  T. 


A.    G.    C.   E.   & 
Legislative  Representative, 

B •   of  L.   E • 

Vice-President, 
Legislative  Representative. 
2.  of  L.P.  &  E. 


Senator  Ashurst  has  the  credit  of 
making  the  best  speech  ever  delivered  in 
Congress  upon  the  Government  manu- 
facturing its  own  guns,  warships,  etc. 
The  Senator  showed  conclusively  that  the 
Government  could  make  a  wonderful 
saving.  —  Dunbar's  Weekly,  December 
19,  1915. 


A   BRAVE   SENATOR 

A  brave  man,  indeed,  must  be  United 
States  Senator  Henry  Fountain  Ashurst, 
of  Arizona,  a  man  of  sterling  moral 
courage.    He  is  not  afraid  to  make  bold 


and  open  deliverance  against  the  evil  of 
the  "pork  barrel"  in  Congress  and  de- 
mand that  it  be  smashed. 

In  a  letter  to  Collier's,  which  that 
paper  designated  "an  editorial  by  a  Sen- 
ator," Mr.  Ashurst  declared  that  "the 
most  damning  blight  upon  Congress  is 
the  pork  barrel  system."  He  favored  the 
passage  of  Senator  Newlands'  bill,  which 
provides  for  the  creation  of  a  waterways 
commission  and  a  board  of  river  regu- 
lation, to  take  care  of  that  part  of  the 
Federal  appropriations  which,  until  very 
recently,  comprised  liberal  contents  of 
the  pork  barrel. 


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"To  illustrate  how  the  pork  barrel 
system  cripples  the  efficiency  of  the  Gov- 
ernment," continued  Senator  Ashurst, 
"you  will  recall  that  recent  disturbances 
on  the  Mexican  border  required  the 
presence  of  a  number  of  American 
troops  in  Texas,  New  Mexico  and  Ari- 
zona. The  necessity  for  these  troops 
still  exists,  but  the  1916  elections  are 
looming  up,  and  some  members  of  Con- 
gress in  whose  States  forts  or  barracks 
are  situated  are  bombarding  the  depart- 
ments urging  that  the  troops  be  taken 
away  from  the  Mexican  border  where 
they  are  really  required  and  sent  back 
to  those  various  army  posts  in  the  in- 
terior of  the  country  where  soldiers  are 
not  just  now  needed.  I  am  convinced 
that  the  pork  barrel  is  an  evil  that  will 
remain  until  the  people  and  the  news- 
papers denounce  appropriations  for  their 
own  district  unless  the  same  be  justified 
by  the  actual  necessities  and  require- 
ments of  the  Government  as  a  whole. 
Politicians,  as  a  rule,  pawn  their  cour- 
age with  Janus  in  return  for  a  popularity 
ticket.  When  the  pork  barrel  becomes 
unpopular  Congressmen  will  strenuously 
oppose  it." 

If  a  few  more  Senators  and  Represen- 
tatives in  Congress  would  emulate  the 
example  of  Senator  Ashurst,  and  come 
out.  boldly  and  openly,  in  condemnation 
of  the  pork  barrel  policy,  there  is  no 
doubt  the  evil  would  soon  disappear  and 
intelligence  and  public  need  become  the 
rule  in  making  the  annual  appropria- 
tions, especially  for  waterway  improve- 
ments and  important  public  buildings. 
Xo  longer  would  the  country  be  en- 
livened by  the  illuminating  evidences  of 
wicked  extravagance  found  in  the  erec- 
tion of  large  public  buildings,  costing 
from  .$50,000  to  $200,000,  in  towns  of 
several  hundred  population  or  at  most 
of  not  more  than  2,000.  Instances  exist 
of  imposing  Federal  buildings — not 
merely  postoffices — erected  at  heavy 
cost  in  small  towns,  to  accommodate 
United  States  District  Courts  which  are 
required  to  sit  as  few  as  two  and  never 


more  than  nine  days  in  the  course  of 
a  year. 

Senator  Ashurst  deserves  special  com- 
mendation for  his  independence  and 
courage  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  his 
term  expires  on  March  3,  1917,  and  his 
successor  will  be  chosen  at  the  election 
to  be  held  next  November.  We  do  not 
know  whether  Senator  Ashurst  proposes 
to  retire  at  the  close  of  his  term,  or 
will  be  a  candidate  for  re-election.  If 
the  latter,  he  may  expect  vigorous  op- 
position on  account  of  his  brave  and 
honest  stand  against  the  wicked  extrava- 
gance and  folly  of  the  pork  barrel  sys- 
tem. It  is  hoped,  however,  the  Demo- 
crats of  Arizona,  should  he  ask  of  them 
a  renomination,  will  give  it  to  him  cor- 
dially and  enthusiastically,  thereby  in- 
dorsing his  commendable  attitude.  And 
in  the  event  of  his  renomination  the 
people  of  Arizona  should  re-elect  him 
by  a  large  majority. — From"Every  Eve- 
ning," Wilmington,  Delazvare,  January 
29,  1916. 


George  H.  Maxwell,  the  man  to  whom 
the  Salt  River  Valley  owes  more  than  it 
can  ever  hope  to  repay,  the  man  who 
was  among  the  first  to  advocate  the 
building  of  the  Tonto  dam  and  to  whose 
untiring  efforts  the  inauguration  and 
final  completion  of  the  Salt  River  pro- 
ject are  so  largely  due,  was  one  of  the 
most  honored  guests  at  the  great  cele- 
bration on  Thursday. 

Round  after  round  greeted  his  ap- 
pearance on  the  speakers'  stand,  and  his 
address  was  punctuated  with  cheers.  At 
its  conclusion  he  received  an  ovation. 
He  said  in  part: 

"This  great  monument  is  but  a  step- 
ping stone  to  something  so  much  bigger 
that  the  mind  can  hardly  grasp  it. 

"That  great  future  toward  which  we 
are  now  struggling  with  even  greater 
faith  than  in  the  old  days,  in  the  time 
when  every  drop  of  water  that  now  runs 
to  waste  in  the  West  will  be  saved  and 
stored  and  used  to  bring  forth  the  fruits 
of  the  earth  for  humanity's  use  and 
benefit 


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"As  we  pushed  the  national  irrigation 
or  reclamation  act  in  the  old  days,  we 
are  now  pushing  a  greater  constructive 
measure,  the  Newlands  river  regulation 
bill,  which  appropriates  $250,000,000 
for  the  West  over  a  period  of  ten  years, 
to  duplicate  such  work  as  has  been  done 
here  by  Uncle  Sam. 

"In  the  fight  for  that  bill  we  have 
had  the  cordial  support  of  the  represen- 


tatives of  Arizona  in  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States,  who  are  here  today. 
We  have  circulated  from  one  end  of 
the  United  States  to  the  other  20,000 
copies  of  the  speech  of  Senator  Ashurst 
in  the  Senate  in  behalf  of  that  bill." — 
Extract  from  speech  of  Mr.  Geo.  H. 
Maxwell  at  Reservoir  Celebration,  April 
15,  1915. 


ASHURST  of  ARIZONA 

HIS  CAREER  ANALYZED 

Tireless    Industry   and    Painstaking   Labor  Elevated  Him  to  Enviable  Place  Among 

Nation's  Lawmakers,  Says  John  Temple    Graves. 


By  JOHN  TEMPLE  GRAVES 
Editorial    Correspondence    of   the    Los     Angeles  Examiner. 


Washington,  D.  C,  May  20. — Among  the 
vital  personalities  representing  the  West 
and  the  Pacific  Slope  in  American  legisla- 
tion, is  Henry  Fountain  Ashurst  of  Pres- 
cott,  Ariz.  Let  us  consider  him  for  a  mo- 
ment among  the  people  that  he  serves. 

Senator  Ashurst  of  Arizona  may  not  be  a 
man  of  genius,  but  he  is  a  man  of  unusual 
intellectual  power  and  possesses  a  faculty 
for  original  and  eloquent  expression,  for  in- 
vention, for  achievement  and  for  con- 
structive legislation.  The  talent,  however, 
that  has  won  him  high  place  in  public  life 
is  his  painstaking  labor  and  tireless  industry. 

After  eleven  months'  service  he  was 
placed  on  the  great  law  committee  of  the 
U.  S.  Senate,  which  deals  with  the  complex 
questions  of  constitutional  law  affecting 
national  sovereignty;  and  although  the 
youngest  member  of  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee, his  soundness  as  a  lawyer  enables 
him  to  sit  worthily  at  the  table  with  such 
eminent  lawyers  as  Senators  Culberson, 
O'Gorman,  Borah,  Cummins,  Sutherland, 
Nelson,  Hoke  Smith  and  Reed. 
*        *        * 

After  two  years'  service,  Senator  Ashurst 
was  selected  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
Indian  affairs,  one  of  the  most  important 
committees  of  the  Senate.  The  Indian  bill 
annually  carries  over  $10,000,000  and  deals 
with  $1,000,000,000  worth  of  property  be- 
longing to  the  Indians,  held  in  trust  for 
them   by    the     Government.     Of  this   vital 


committee  the  Arizona  Senator  is  the  able 
chief. 

To  manage  successfully  a  large  appro- 
priation bill,  direct  its  course  through  the 
Senate,  and  instantly  and  accurately  to  give 
an  analysis  of  each  item  in  the  bill  when 
called  upon,  requires  an  equanimity  not 
easily  disturbed  and  a  mind  that  works  with 
precision.  Senator  Ashurst,  in  successfully 
piloting  the  Indian  appropriation  bills 
through  the  Senate  meets  the  test  and 
measures  up  to  the  requirements. 

During  the  celebrated  filibuster  on  the 
ship  purchase  bill  it  was  believed  by  the 
Senators  in  charge  of  the  bill  that  a  roll- 
call  might  be  secured,  and,  of  course,  after 
one  Senator  had  answered  to  his  name,  no 
further  debate  would  be  in  order.  Senator 
Ashurst's  name  is  the  first  on  the  roll-call; 
so,  with  Oriental  patience,  he  sat  in  his 
seat  almost  continuously  during  the  famous 
fifty-four-hour  session  of  the  Senate,  wait- 
ing for  his  name  to  be  called.  Therein  lies 
the    lesson    of   his    strength — patience    and 

preparedness.  • 

*        *        * 

Three  years  ago  Senator  Ashurst  spent 
several  weeks  investigating  the  necessity  of 
a  Government  armor-plate  factory,  and  a 
bill  recent^'-  passed  the  Senate  providing 
for  the  construction  of  a  Government- 
owned  factory.  This  factory  will  save  the 
Government  upwards  of  $1,000,000  yearly, 
and   in   addition   thereto    the    people    will 


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know    that    defective    armor-plate     is    not 
being  sold  to  the  Government. 

Senator  Ashurst  delivered  the  first  speech 
rrlade  in  Congress  as  to  the  necessity  of  a 
Government  plant  for  the  fixation  of  atmos- 
pheric nitrogen.  The  United  States  now 
depends  wholly  upon  the  nitrate  deposits  of 
Chile;  the  Chilean  deposits  will  be  ex- 
hausted in  1923.  Senator  Ashurst  made  an 
investigation,  and  consulted  many  scientific 
men,  and  he  ascertained  that  Germany. 
France,  England  and  Norway  all  had  Gov- 
ernment plants  for  the  fixation  of  atmos- 
pheric nitrogen  and  were  not  required  to 
depend  upon  Chilean  supplies  for  their  fer- 
tilizers and  for  nitric  acid  in  the  making  of 
explosives. 

Senator  Ashurst  has  been  an  able  and 
forceful  advocate  of  Federal  aid  for  good 
roads,  a  rural  credits  bill,  and  he  has,  on 
two  different  occasions  in  the  Senate,  de- 
feated "riders"  that  were  attached  to  the 
post  office  appropriation  bill  that  sought  to 
cripple  the  Postmaster  General's  discretion 
in  the  development  of  the  parcels  post.  He 
has  at  all  times  paid  close  attention  to  the 
advocacy  of  constructive  legislation,  and  is 
an  intellectual  and  moral  force.  He  is 
radically  independent  and  is  a  militant  bat- 
tler for  justice  for  the  poor  and  lonely. 


The  most  recent  and  one  of  the  most 
valuable  services  Senator  Ashurst  has  ren- 
dered to  the  American  people  is  his  force- 
ful and  uncompromising  fight  in  favor  of 
the  confirmation  of  Louis  D.  Brandeis  to  be 
associate  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  The 
President  sent  the  nomination  to  the  Senate 
last  January  and  it  went  in  due  course  to 
the  committee  on  the  judiciary.  The  com- 
mittee held  long,  tedious,  secret  hearings, 
and  Senator  Ashurst  recently  Renounced  the 
secret  hearings  and  charged  that  an  at- 
tempt was  being  made  to  strangle  the  nomi- 
nation. There  can  be  no  doubt  that  an  at- 
tempt was  made  to  pigeon-hole  the  nomina- 
tion, but  the  galling  criticism  and  rakine 
fire  to  which  the  tactics  used  against  Mr. 
Brandeis  were  subjected  by  Mr.  Ashurst, 
drew  the  attention  of  the  people  to  the  case, 
and  it  remains  to  be  seen  whether  the 
powerful  "interests"  who  are  trying  to  de- 
stroy Mr.  Brandeis  will  triumph,  or 
whether  justice  and  humanity  shall  tri- 
umph. 

The  people  of  Arizona  have  excellent 
reason  to  be  proud  of  the  courage,  charac- 
ter, brains  and  devotion  of  Senator  Ashurst. 
He  is  a  credit  to  any  constituency  and  is 
gaining  in  power  and  influence  with  every 
session  that  he  serves  in  the  American  Con- 
gress. 


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